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That’s the ticket. Let’s get a great project management tool that will help us get everything done faster. We’ll complete all our projects quicker and finally deliver more of them on time! Not so fast young Jedi apprentice ....
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August 17, 2010 Bruce Benson
Change Management
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We all seem to know that throwing people at a late project may only make the project later. Yet, we all too often still do it for a variety of reasons including as a way to manage risk in a project. Having your best people ready to jump in and solve problems appears to be a smart strategy, but is it really?
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April 26, 2010 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
Not all improvements require a fancy new development methodology or project management tool. Removing existing cultural and management inhibitors, while often not easy, can vault your team or organization to the next level of performance.
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December 7, 2009 Bruce Benson
Change Management
As quality went up, our productivity skyrocketed.
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October 19, 2009 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Improving team performance is as much about attitude as it is about using specific project management techniques to improve quality. Here, "It Should Work The First Time" caught the imagination of the staff and became a cultural and performance changing philosophy
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October 13, 2009 Bruce Benson
Change Management
The key step? We have to change something that will actually help us. Here, “test every line of code” made a huge difference in this software organization. This is the first of several articles on basic changes that made a huge difference and why they worked.
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October 8, 2009 Bruce Benson
Change Management
A busy project test organization can mean your products are having problems. In this case however, the fact they were very busy helped the test organization to stay objective about reporting dramatically improved test results without missing a beat. Other test teams described in this series of articles reacted in inefficient ways when product quality improved dramatically.
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October 4, 2009 Bruce Benson
Testing
Improving quality can have a surprisingly stressful impact on your project testing organization. A good set of quality metrics can help keep your improvements on track as your organizations adjusts to the new reality.
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September 29, 2009 Bruce Benson
Testing
Your test organization will often provide the first indicator that you’ve improved how you do business. How this shows up however, might be rather different than you would expect. Test organizations do not always handle it well when quality improves.
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September 24, 2009 Bruce Benson
Testing
Look into using your existing business systems as part of your project management tools. The business systems used by everyone to do their daily jobs can often provide more current and predictive information than relying solely on our traditional project management tools.
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September 2, 2009 Bruce Benson
Communication, Reporting
Sometimes we just need to bring order to one key project process to stabilize and enhance the overall project.
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August 25, 2009 Bruce Benson
Change Management, Schedule
All I had to do was to get about 500 software defects fixed, according to my project management tools. My boss told me I had to have daily meetings with everyone concerned to get this done. This meeting centric approach to managing this project turned out to be utter madness. Simple measurements, that anyone can do, demonstrated that these meetings had no discernible impact.
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July 20, 2009 Bruce Benson
Communication, Reporting
Consider organizing your project management change effort as a "service" tool. This approach helps reduce resistance and it highlights how you are here to help. For us, it resulted in rapid improvements where previous efforts had little or no impact.
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June 5, 2009 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Project management tools and techniques help us to do the job we need to do. Yet, the tools can often become overwhelming with updating them, trying to get just the right report out of them, etc. It is easy to lose track of what we are trying to achieve. Estimating a schedule is one of the most critical things we will do so let's see if we can get it right.
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May 22, 2009 Bruce Benson
Reporting, Schedule
