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Getting a Project Back on the Rails

August 15, 2021May 22, 2020 by Jeanne Bradford

Setting “boundary conditions” at the time of a project’s approval is an effective way to create a “contract” between the management and project teams.

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Categories Product Development Pr... Tags Predictability, project management

Getting More Done by Doing Less

August 15, 2021May 20, 2020 by John Carter

Managers want to optimize their resources by loading them up and have them do more on the priority list to satisfy the executive suite. The optimum load is approximately 2 projects – one large and one small.

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Categories High Performance Teams Tags project management

Visualizing the Resource Gaps

August 15, 2021May 15, 2020 by Jeanne Bradford

Inadequate staffing or unclear priorities across organizations often leave resource gaps that throws the project off the rails. Identify the resource gaps in Project Management.

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Categories High Performance Teams Tags project management

How to “Control” an Agile Development Project

December 3, 2021April 27, 2020 by John Carter

So-called “Waterfall” or “Phase-Gate” product development methodologies often give management the illusion that they are under control of the project, while they are actually just meddling and slowing it down.

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Categories Agile for Tangible Pro... Tags Predictability, project management, Teamwork

Meeting the Challenge of Top-Down Schedule Mandates

August 18, 2021May 1, 2019 by Jeanne Bradford

Many product development teams struggle over estimating project schedules. PERT is the best method to build a realistic, evidence-based schedule.

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Categories Product Development Pr... Tags Execution, project management, Schedule

Project Management 101

September 2, 2021November 26, 2012 by John Carter

Project Management 101 – Summarizing Project Requirements and Objectives, Project planning, Project Execution, Leveraging Others and Risk Management.

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Categories Product Development Pr... Tags project management
Stop measuring results

Stop measuring results

March 23, 2022March 3, 2010 by Jeanne Bradford

Companies are producing the wrong results, because they’re measuring the wrong things. If you want to ensure long–term success use short-term predictive metrics to quickly inform you that you’re on the right path.

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Categories Product Development Metrics Tags project management

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