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We have more to learn from Toyota than there is time to do so
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Over at NWLean there’s been quite a riff on the 8th waste. Eventually, the contributors concluded that recreating knowledge is the one true 8th waste. While it’s hard to argue with any of the writers’ arguments, getting at the roots of that waste is where we can begin to take effective action.
Waste in [...]
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I still meet many project managers who just state that sharing a project vision (if ever there is one) is a waste of time and that the project team should just concentrate on what they are asked (told ?) to do. This always reminds me of my first project management courses, more than 30 years [...]
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Guest blogger Claude Emond
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Learn to us the 12 actions mastered by 70 highly successful people.
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Projects happen in an always-uncertain and unknowable future. Facing up to that is the key to improving project planning.
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What’s more important, measuring or understanding? Drucker or Oglesby?
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What will jazz do for you for your projects?
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Is project management even possible? David Schmaltz thinks not.
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If you can’t rely on project management theory, then what can you rely on?
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IGLC-14: Theory of Projects
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IGLC-14: Theory of Projects
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Implementing systems like CRM are often difficult and many fail. We need look no further than the science of the brain to understand why.
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Ross Mayfield suggests that we’ve reached the limit of what process can do for us in business. Smart people don’t do their best work when constrained by process. Ross makes a compelling argument…
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Two authors think that the difficulties we have with projects might have to do with our basic 2000+ year view of things and processes. Read what Lauri Koskela, one of the founders of lean construction, and Mike Kagioglou have to say…
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Interested in the theory of lean project delivery. Have a look at the new lens…
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When IT projects come in on time and on budget but organizations don’t use the new system we have failure. The recommended remedy is to tie executive compensation to the success of the project. That doesn’t seem to be enough. Read on…
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So much of what we do on projects does not produce value for our client and our firms. Author Richard Koch suggests we can change that by applying a 100 year-old observation of an Italian economist. Read on…
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A heavy travel schedule this week provided the opportunity to catch up on loads of reading. Baseline Magazine is a monthly that focuses on IT projects and issues. Executive editor John McCormick wrote Projects Don’t Fail, People Do. He says we only need to look to Occam’s razor for the answer. [...]
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What is management? We train some of our managers in business school. They study marketing, accounting, finance, statistics, operations, policy, organizational behavior, economics, and decision-making. Recently, students also have courses in ethics, leadership, and entrepreneurism. Dig into the syllabus and you’ll find an emphasis on making good choices. That’s right, [...]
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The lean construction movement now has its own professional journal. I’ve just finished reading the new Lean Construction Journal. This first issue will provide someone new to lean construction a survey of the breadth of issues and directions currently being investigated. The writing is first rate. As usual for this set [...]
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I’ve been living in the dissonance of the worlds of project management and enlightened company management. You only need to read a story here and there in Fast Company or Business 2.0 to see that we are setting out to manage our companies in a different way than we attempt to manage our AEC [...]
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This past week two papers I co-authored were presented at the 12th Annual International Group for Lean Construction in Copenhagen, Denmark. Greg Howell and I authored the papers with some help from colleagues Lauri Koskela, John Draper, and Joe Ely. I’ll introduce the papers in postings on Aug 9 and 10. In [...]
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? Guy Kawasaki wrote, "Less is the new more." Easy to learn: symmetry, seduction, subtraction, and sustainability. Very valuable to do. Step 1: Read Matt's book!! just 140 keystrokes.
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A New Idea…Can I Face the Pain?
by Hal on January 1, 2007
in Language Action Perspective, Last Planner, PMBoK, commentary, lean, theory
Are you ready for project success? Yes, you say. Are you ready to face the pain that goes with it?
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