Project Management Lessons From The Snowden Affair
That’s astonishing to me. The rules are not being applied well or they need to be more strict! Uh, oh - not so fast Senator.
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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 Best Metrics May Be Intangibly Quantum Entangled
No one seemed to see what was going on, and everyone kept saying we were just about done. I just needed a way to measure this monstrosity so we could manage it.
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How One CEO Came To A Deep Understanding of His Company
It took him three to four hours a week and left him with an unparalleled understanding of how money was moving out of the company.
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We Are Still Doomed To Repeat Our Problems If We Ignore Our Past Data
I could now readily see how we consistently repeated the same problems on each projects. This is how we got the data we needed.
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Are We Always Connected But Always Distracted?
Being always connected to our work and project often means we are constantly distracted. It doesn't have to be this way. This is what worked for us.
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We Probably Already Have All The Information We Need For Success
We need data to improve our performance and the surprising finding is that we generally already have just about all we need.
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Are We Measuring Project Quality Or Just Activity?
The VP of Quality and the VP of Test both showed up at our project meeting. They were mad.
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Why Project Managers Should Not Set Up Metrics To Measure Improvement Efforts
Establish up front how we are going to know if the agile adoption was successful? If we have to do that, we may have other problems to deal with first.
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How To Ask The Right Project Management Question And Get The Right Answer
A somewhat humorous real world example and a few key principles that got us the project management answers we needed and vaulted our projects on to success.
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Project Manager Is It Really A Crisis?
My boss appeared confused with my position. “No, no” he says “we have to get those panics down. Push them to focus first on the panics!”
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Project Managers Are We Managing Or Are We Theorizing?
It was a great theory, that our project slowdown was due to having only the most difficult defects remaining, but was that really the case?
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Project Managers Follow The Crowd As Your Last Resort
Should we simply follow the crowd until we found something that suggests another course of action?
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Project Managers – Check your Assumptions!
My boss told me my job was to drive down the roughly 500 defects on our current project so we can ship it. I also noticed another 500 issues in the database that were tagged as "work to be done." My boss said to ignore them.
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Senior Manager It Is OK Not To Be An Expert Which Is Why You Have A Project Manager
Now that we are getting close to the project launch, we start to get "help." We get VPs showing up. What is this all about? How can they afford to do this?
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