Project Management Tools That Work

Three Ways Project Management Estimates Fail And How To Avoid Them

Bruce Benson — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 15:53:45 +0000

Estimating the project is one of the greatest challenges, with or without fancy project management tools, that a manager will face. Here are three areas where we've seen estimates fail and how we've avoided doing the same.

The Most Effective Part of the Day In Project Management?

Bruce Benson — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:04:58 +0000

It only takes one key item to make a day successful. Often for me it is a well written e-mail that outlines a problem and drives a set of actions. As busy as the rest of the day may be, this one item makes the day a success and often, if it was insightful enough, makes days or weeks successful.

Project Managers Repeat After Me: Software Development Is A Repeatable Process

Bruce Benson — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:34:42 +0000

I had a job interview for VP of Development. The interviewing VP with a long history in the industry asked me a simple question: Did I think software development was a repeatable process? I said yes. I won't describe the ensuing discussion except to say I didn't get the job. We didn't even get to talk about project management tools!

Improving Project Management Productivity Does Not Save Time

Bruce Benson — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 16:00:10 +0000

That’s the ticket. Let’s get a great project management tool that will help us get everything done faster. We’ll complete all our projects quicker and finally deliver more of them on time! Not so fast young Jedi apprentice ....

One Reason To Always Support The Other Guy’s Project

Bruce Benson — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:08:29 +0000

As a project manager we have our own project and often have to fight to keep resources and schedules running right. So what do we do when that other project manger comes requesting our resources? Do everything we can to help them out.