Home »
Posts tagged "Tracking" (Page 5)
Some key project metrics not only provide tactical insight into how a project is going, they can also provide an overall strategic view not found elsewhere. Here are three we've used successfully.
Continue reading »
November 21, 2011 Bruce Benson
Metrics
1 Comment
Ways we try to help but actually undermine the project. As a senior manager, try to avoid these. As the project manager, try and manage around them if we can not get relief otherwise.
Continue reading »
November 10, 2011 Bruce Benson
Leadership
The project manager needs to take charge of their project. Allowing “strong personalities” or other persons (even your boss) to effectively take charge of the project is a recipe for failure. Here is how we did it.
Continue reading »
November 8, 2011 Bruce Benson
Leadership
Security is our number one priority. Except for quality which is our number one priority, right along with speed to market which is our number one priority. So, what is a good project manager to do?
Continue reading »
November 2, 2011 Bruce Benson
Risk Management
A metric is a project management tool that captures an essential aspect of the project or organization and provides insight, allowing us to make rapid and accurate project management decisions. Here are five secrets for creating successful project management metrics.
Continue reading »
October 17, 2011 Bruce Benson
Metrics
My job was to evaluate how well our government projects were doing. The projects were expected to be using the prescribed latests and greatest project management tools and development technologies to help ensure they were successful. Here is how we finally achieved an "A" in our project management.
Continue reading »
September 23, 2011 Bruce Benson
Communication
3 Comments
It’s a business management problem! Management’s goal should be to figure out a way to facilitate data access. We’ve lost the ability to move quickly. Our approval cycles squash great ideas. We kill with kindness and best intentions.
Continue reading »
August 24, 2011 Bruce Benson
Planning
Many projects have an S shaped pattern that is our adoption success curve for our effort. Understanding our project adoption and productivity curves will help us ensure our projects are successful.
Continue reading »
August 22, 2011 Bruce Benson
Change Management
A good budget is often the output of fixing other parts of the project management process such as project planning and schedule estimating.
Continue reading »
July 20, 2011 Bruce Benson
Cost
Déjà vu. I’m doing nothing more than helping out as my father-in-law is recovering from having gone to the hospital. All the chaos and concern seemed very familiar in an eerie way ... kind of like … an out of control project!
Continue reading »
May 3, 2011 Bruce Benson
Management
We have a temperature sensor that sits outside our bedroom window. My wife says it can't be correct. Why? Because it is up next to the house and the house will warm it. She says the local news temperature report is better. Who is correct?
Continue reading »
February 1, 2011 Bruce Benson
Metrics
It was a high level meeting. Lots of VPs. It included our Corporate Chief Quality Officer. He was a big man with a booming voice and was very intimidating to the other VPs.
Continue reading »
December 14, 2010 Bruce Benson
Quality
Are you able to get your projects done early or on time?
Yes - 67%
No - 33%
Continue reading »
November 16, 2010 Bruce Benson
Metrics
I am a big advocate of getting the project management tool schedule right for a project. While this seems obvious, what is not often as obvious is that a lot of the problems seen in a project can often be root caused back to an inadequate schedule estimate.
Continue reading »
October 26, 2010 Bruce Benson
Schedule
23 Comments
It happened pretty regularly. To make some functionally work on the project we needed something else that we overlooked. No problem. We make the change -- tag it as a missed requirement in our project management tool -- and approve it. A couple of weeks later the additional functionality is completed and gets submitted to be put into the product. It is submitted as a “new requirement.” It shows up as scope creep. I called up the project manager and explain they tagged it incorrectly. Please change it to a missed requirement. “Oh no!”, she practically yells, “It is a new requirement!
Continue reading »
October 19, 2010 Bruce Benson
Metrics
