The Past Is Not About Blame But About A Better Future
The past is about blame and punishment. The present about belonging, about bonding or separating.
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Project Managing By Throwing Away The Book
We've been successful at throwing away the book, but in general the book has too many good ideas we need to retain and use.
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When Product Success Is Bad For Project Management
Success can be a very bad thing and only perpetuate bad practices, until they finally eat out the soul of the company.
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How To Get That Lucky Golden Touch
My wife said I was just lucky. Lucky? I’ve been doing this stuff for over 20 years!
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Disorganized? Or Are You An In-box Hero?
My inbox has 16000 e-mails and my "All Mail" folder has more than 100000 e-mails. I'm not disorganized. I'm on top of the information I need. Here is how.
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Your Lack Of Success Is Nothing More Than A Bad Habit
What we too often do is based upon what we’ve done in the past even if what we’ve done in the past has us regularly delivering our projects months late.
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Planning Is More Important Than The Plan
Your plan will not survive the first encounter with reality. Do I believe that? No, not if I’ve done my homework.
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Get The Change Right!
Changing an organization is often the real effort behind any project. Here are three phases to change I’ve experienced and how they’ve helped me to succeed.
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Yes I Know It Seems So Reasonable And Yes Everyone Does It
The COO said we had to guarantee that all future deliveries would be just as successful. I told her she couldn’t afford such a guarantee. She was not happy,
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How To Know When To Make Things Tougher Or Easier
Discipline while developing new technology might be different than optimizing current production.
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Sometimes When They Say They Want The Project Fast It Is Just Talk
OK, which one is it? You want a lot of changes fast, but when we give them to you, you tell us that we are changing too much too often!
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On-Time Successful Projects? This Year We Can
Projects that consistently complete on time? Gee, we can’t do that. No way ... What? We can?
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Beware The Moneyball Myth In Project Management
I loved the book Moneyball. It highlighted how we do too much based on habit and custom and not always on hard data about what actually works.
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Being Chaotic Is Often Smart In Project Managing Innovation
“More and more,” Carlson says, “innovation that happens from the top down tends to be orderly and dumb. Innovation that happens from the bottom up tends to be chaotic but smart.”
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We Know Everything We Need To Know To Be Successful Project Managers
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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