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If a tool’s power is touted as its customizability then we might want to look closely at the total cost of deploying such a project management tool.
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March 26, 2012 Bruce Benson
Change Management
It is about being willing to say, out loud, that we are doing silly things.
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February 21, 2012 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Problems are often opportunities in disguise. Here, a high turnover of staff was turned into a force for project management change and improvement.
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February 1, 2012 Bruce Benson
Change Management
I simply said “hey, I got a great idea, let’s do X!” Everyone got excited and we finally had an effective technique. Where did I find this new technique?
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January 30, 2012 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Yet study after study, analyst after analyst, say that developers are making the same mistakes they made in 2000. That they made in 1990. And earlier.
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January 19, 2012 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Projects that consistently complete on time? Gee, we can’t do that. No way ... What? We can?
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January 3, 2012 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Consider finding innovative ways, like teaching your daughters to play wargames, to motivate people to do or learn useful project skills.
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November 16, 2011 Bruce Benson
Training
This is bad, right? Only about half the tasks scheduled get accomplished in the required week. As a project manager I thought “great, I can work with this!” Huh? Why is that?
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October 31, 2011 Bruce Benson
Planning
We know everything we need to know (or at least enough), and if we just apply it, we will be successful, even without fancy new project management tools.
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September 5, 2011 Bruce Benson
Training
The problem was that we never knew where to start or what to work on first. This was the source of many arguments and many stops and starts in improvement projects. Now, we knew.
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September 2, 2011 Bruce Benson
Planning
Oh no, I’ve got a room full of computer "experts." None of them have any training in computer management, but they “know” what needs to be done. We are doomed.
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July 27, 2011 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
A good budget is often the output of fixing other parts of the project management process such as project planning and schedule estimating.
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July 20, 2011 Bruce Benson
Cost
I kept wondering how we could be world leaders but be so bad at managing our efforts that made us leaders? Something wasn’t quite right in this dichotomy. Maybe, I thought, this is just the cost of being good at what we do -- by failing often.
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May 23, 2011 Bruce Benson
Change Management
The software project manager said he needed more people, more money and more time. This brought to mind a great quote I heard many years ago, that went something like "engineering is doing with $1 what any fool can do with $2."
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May 16, 2011 Bruce Benson
Planning
I spend a lot of time talking about falling back and using simple project management tools when projects are not going as well as expected. Most management, project or otherwise, I always considered pretty simple. Simple doesn't mean easy to do. Often, it is very hard but the right thing to do.
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October 12, 2010 Bruce Benson
Change Management
