What are some of the main causes behind estimating errors? And what specific steps can project managers can take to increase the accuracy of estimations?
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If you are managing a project to deliver a new product or service, you’ll be making lots of decisions. If
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Status reports (or whatever your particular methodological school calls them) are frequently maligned – c.f. “TPS Reports” in the movie
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When you first start out as a professional project manager, you typically have had some informal project management experience as
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If I ever hear “Well – could you make a baby in one month with nine mothers?” again – I
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A common culprit behind schedule slips is adding up estimates for building subunits and not accounting for verification and integration.
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We’ve all heard the groan: “We have an aggressive schedule to meet.” The fact is, it’s not the “schedule” timeline that is aggressive; rather, it’s what we choose to fit into it. Adopting an attitude of progress refinement (perfecting over perfection) with the confidence percentage strategy helps reduce this tension between promised and actually delivered tasks.
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The triple constraint, in many cases, is a given to project managers. Regardless of approach, methodology, or industry, most PMs
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How do you schedule innovation? A common conflict, even in a well planned and organized environment is marketing’s request for
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– a case for project metrics. The right metric, driving the right behavior aligned with the right strategy. Think of
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When project managing for innovation and change, three important steps are getting great inspiration, having an effective idea generation session, and then moving your ideas forward with prototyping. Consider your personal and organizational prototyping practices: do you prototype across a wide range of levels, from rough to real? Do you prototype both your tangible and intangible concepts, as you might for service design and organizational change? Take a look at the following post to imagine your path this year on what and how to prototype – for yourself or across your company.
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