I recently read a new book by Curt Finch, CEO of Journyx, Inc. titled “All Your Money Won’t Another Minute Buy – Valuing Time as a Business Resource.” I have always been a student of time management, so I was …
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Unusual title I know – Saturday at last (and my last blog here) I just spent the day shooting clays – my score is getting better every time I get out on the range and practice. One day I may …
Environmental Electronics – no time to learn from your mistakes!! Read More »
A fast overview of the things you need to check from a project management perspective. (Friday …… at last…………..) This week we have looked at a number of areas. The first is that of the environmental compliance actions arising out of …
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At an entrepreneurs’ forum I recently attended, I was heartened to hear that even startups recommended checkpoint reviews. The term “checkpoint review” can have different meanings in different contexts; in this article, it refers to a cross-functional executive review that the project …
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I’m looking for some insight from all of you on a point that’s been bothering me lately. On many recent projects, “time to market” has been defined, and rightly so, as the top priority (I still use the triple constraints …
Cost – do we focus on it too much? Read More »
Consider Costs and Benefits of the Entire System and Deliverable Lifetime The textbook wording of this point varies, but is usually something like “Stop making decisions purely on the basis of cost.” When I read the various descriptions however, I …
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Inspection is a Tool for Improvement, Not a Whip Deming’s third point urges practitioners to design quality into processes, using inspection as an information-gathering tool to do so. In project management, the processes and systems make up a methodology. Does …
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