http://PMToolsThatWork.com Getting to On-Time Software Projects Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:51:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ProjectManagementToolsThatWork/~3/fvu8VnM2NMc/ http://PMToolsThatWork.com/project-managers-are-you-managing-or-are-you-experimenting/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:51:25 +0000 Bruce Benson http://PMToolsThatWork.com/?p=2858 Are we managing projects or are we conducting experiments? Managing you say? 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Here, a high turnover of staff was turned into a force for project management change and improvement. <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/G4IPLvDleAvDBrUnLWqIpvHcMTY/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/G4IPLvDleAvDBrUnLWqIpvHcMTY/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/G4IPLvDleAvDBrUnLWqIpvHcMTY/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/G4IPLvDleAvDBrUnLWqIpvHcMTY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ProjectManagementToolsThatWork/~4/4ohQAaPFRnA" height="1" width="1"/> http://PMToolsThatWork.com/use-bad-situations-to-make-good-project-management-changes/feed/ 0 http://PMToolsThatWork.com/use-bad-situations-to-make-good-project-management-changes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=use-bad-situations-to-make-good-project-management-changes http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ProjectManagementToolsThatWork/~3/T1GwzgvDEO8/ http://PMToolsThatWork.com/the-one-great-but-often-overlooked-project-management-improvement-technique/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:04:55 +0000 Bruce Benson http://PMToolsThatWork.com/?p=2822 I simply said “hey, I got a great idea, let’s do X!” Everyone got excited and we finally had an effective technique. 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