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Project e-Tip of the Week

by Hal on November 12, 2003

in PM practice, tips

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Today’s Project e-Tip comes from Glen Alleman. Glen is quite a good thinker and writer taking on tough subjects and making sense for others. His book reviews are among the most complete I’ve read. When Glen offers [...]

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Produce Coherence Among Project Participants

by Hal on November 5, 2003

in leadership, tips

Leadership in this blind-men-and-elephant world requires integrating disparate perspectives, not enforcing a dominant one. Projects are always on the verge of incoherence. Address this personally to produce coherence on your project.

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Project e-Tip of the Week

by Hal on October 29, 2003

in PM practice, tips

Keeping clients and users involved in your project could be the single most-important act you can take to deliver successful projects. Read on…

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Project e-Tip of the Week

by Hal on August 27, 2003

in coaching, tips

This Project e-Tip comes courtesy of a fellow blogger and close friend Joe Ely. Joe writes in the blog Learning About Lean. He shares with his readers what he is learning as he and his company adopt a lean approach to the design, fabrication, and construction of pre-engineered wood structures. As usual, [...]

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Shift Good Intentions into Commitments

by Hal on August 20, 2003

in Language Action Perspective, tips

Inspiration for this week’s Project e-Tip came from Jeffrey Cufaude’s May 19th weblog posting Are Good Intentions Good Enough? in Jeffrey Cufaude – Idea Architect. His answer was no. So let’s do something about it!

The Project Reformer’s e-Tip of the Week

014: [...]

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Project e-Tip of the Week

by Hal on August 13, 2003

in PM practice, leadership, tips

In this week’s Project e-Tip I suggest project managers/leaders adopt an emergent approach to planning and delivering their projects. I contrast an emergent approach with the approach of operating to a fixed baseline plan. Most projects are neither fully emergent or fixed to an original plan. We all know that. However, [...]

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Project e-Tip of the Week

by Hal on August 6, 2003

in PM practice, tips

I’ve enjoyed the little hiatus from this. It gave me a chance to start some other projects. Now I’m back!

The Project Reformer’s e-Tip of the Week

012: Listen Generously

Project breakdowns can often be traced to mis coordination. [...]

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Learn to Attend to the Critical Conversations

by Hal on July 10, 2003

in Language Action Perspective, leadership, tips

Pay attention to your team by attending to the critical conversations…

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10th Project e-Tip of the Week

by Hal on July 2, 2003

in leadership, tips

I wondered if I’d be able to keep up the tip writing. Thanks to three readers they made writing these first ten Project e-Tips easy for me. My plan is in place for the next ten. I just need three more submissions from readers!

The Project Reformer’s e-Tip of [...]

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Project e-Tip of the Week

by Hal on June 25, 2003

in Theory of Constraints, tips

This week’s Project e-Tip was submitted by Clarke Ching, a reader in Scotland. Clarke reminds us of the perils of multi-tasking by sharing his story of book reading. Enjoy!

The Project Reformer’s e-Tip of the Week

009: Eliminate Multi-Tasking to Speed Project Completion
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Set an Improvement Agenda for Your Project

by Hal on June 19, 2003

in lean, tips

If you want continuous improvement, then make that clear to your team. Establish an agenda with them.

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Personal Kaizen

by Hal on June 10, 2003

in lean, project kaizen, tips

Make continuous improvement the example you set on your projects

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Weekly Project e-Tip: Read the Proposal Everyday

by Hal on June 4, 2003

in PM practice, tips

This is the first of the Project e-Tips submitted by readers of Reforming Project Management. Frank has written extensively inlcuding articles in gantthead.
Hey Frank, there’s a copy of Purple Cow in the mail for you!

The Project Reformer’s e-Tip of the Week

006: Read [...]

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Weekly Project e-Tip: Speak about Customer Value with Your Team

by Hal on May 28, 2003

in lean, tips

Context provides teams with a sensibility for action. There’s no better context on a project than what is of value to the customer. It is the project manager’s role to bring the context to life. That happens in the everyday conversations of the team.

The Project Reformer’s e-Tip of [...]

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Weekly Project e-Tip: Keep the Project Mission Alive

by Hal on May 21, 2003

in project control, tips

In this Project e-Tip I am introducing actions the project manager/leader can take for organizing and keeping a project on track. Try it out. Try speaking about the project mission for six weeks. I’m not kidding! It takes that much repetition to convey the seriousness and to make it stick. [...]

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Weekly Project e-Tip: Conduct Plus-Delta Reviews to Encourage Team Openness

by Hal on May 14, 2003

in PM practice, tips

Here’s my third weekly Project e-Tip. I’ve decided to emphasize the fifth lean principle, pursue perfection, in my early e-tips. This one has the added benefit of producing a team dynamic of open communication. This is key to benefit from the varied perspectives and expertise of project participants.

The [...]

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Project e-Tip of the Week

by Hal on May 7, 2003

in PM practice, tips

I received a number of comments and emails in response to last week’s Project e-Tip. One theme came through: Use measurements for the purpose of improvement. Of course, that’s lean principle #5 pursue perfection. So, this week I’m offering one of the first steps in pursuing perfection on projects: collect useful data [...]

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Project e-Tip of the Week

by Hal on April 30, 2003

in PM practice, tips

People frequently ask me for advice on adopting a lean approach on their projects. I write them, either by email or in Yahoo! discussion groups. Instead, I’ve decided to offer my advice in this weblog. Each Wednesday I will post a Project e-Tip of the Week. Subscribers of Reforming Project Management [...]

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