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Projects don’t really exist; they’re a mental model, not an actual thing. We invented projects so that we can talk about a nebulous stream of work as if they were single blocks of time and effort. There are no projects; there are only products. The...
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July 7, 2016 Bruce Benson
Planning
They assumed that, if a project was intensely and minutely planned, everything would naturally and inevitably proceed in an orderly and deterministic way. … And when projects did go off the rails, their response was to stop everything and replan. Sometimes that works, but sometimes...
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January 28, 2016 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Outside of the traditional government pipelines, talented individuals are waiting and willing to help [to save Obamacare].
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April 17, 2014 Bruce Benson
Leadership
The business manager spoke up in an incredible and disbelieving voice “you are planning to fail?!” Yes, and it became our most successful project to date.
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August 13, 2013 Bruce Benson
Planning
Project plans that extend past 90 days are as accurate as TV weather predictions?
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July 5, 2013 Bruce Benson
Planning, Requirements Management
There is no one who knows what all needs to happen. Is the solution to let the decisions be made where they’re executed, and maybe communicated upwards?
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April 9, 2012 Bruce Benson
Communication
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
Too many perfectly good methodologies and techniques have regressed over time because we didn’t make wise choices in trying to perfect them.
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September 7, 2011 Bruce Benson
Change Management
Especially for complex and costly IT projects, customers need to invest more in the up-front evaluation. Oh, no. Here we go again.
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August 11, 2011 Bruce Benson
Planning
The FBI Sentinel project had been problem-plagued and had converted over to Agile. The Sentinel project in turn had sprung out of the FBI’s “Virtual Case File” system which was considered a failure. I'm always interested in lessons learned from projects that struggle to be successful.
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July 9, 2011 Bruce Benson
Change Management
It was simple. Submit our request for changes or enhancements to the product. It then goes through a prioritization effort and depending upon where it lands, we get our features or we don’t. That was the process, but few people believed in it. A lot of requested features never got into the product, at least not through this process. Instead, many of our new capabilities were introduced by what could best be described as hostage taking.
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January 11, 2011 Bruce Benson
Requirements Management
Benson's Bylaw: People will work at a quality deficit if given insufficient time.
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May 24, 2010 Bruce Benson
Schedule
Agile. That's it. Agile. The perfect project management tool or methodology. You can use it in general project management. You can use it in software project management. Don't Google it as you will get confusing things like Agile project management and Scrum. You just want to be agile. Look it up in the dictionary. That is a much better source for the methodology.
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May 17, 2010 Bruce Benson
Change Management
