Now despite the premise of this post, not all conflict in a technical project is bad. Healthy teams resolve their conflicts through respectful discussion of the technical, practical, or organizational impact of each competing option. However, the emotional investment team…
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Meet Your Project Management Conflicts Head-on (Without Cracking Skulls)
Tagged with: affective conflict, Agile, conflict management, procedural conflict, project planning, substantive conflict
Posted in Technology Management
Posted in Technology Management
Strategic Management Missing in Tech
Strategic management boils down to imagination and adaptation. Leadership forms a strategy using an imagined change they must believe will benefit the long-term viability of their firm. Guided by this vision, the thought leaders and subject matter experts combine their…
Tagged with: business strategy, leadership, market planning, organizational change, strategic management
Posted in Technology Management
Posted in Technology Management
The Best Kind of Project Team for Your Organization
A project team coalesces into one of four common forms. The most effective form within an the organization depends on the culture and interpersonal dynamics accepted and practiced across bounds of responsibility. Where team dynamics are the exception and not…
Tagged with: cross-functional team, organizational structure, problem-solving, self-managed team, teams, virtual team
Posted in Innovation Management
Posted in Innovation Management
What Do Project Controls Really Tell Us To Do?
Collect the data, chart the data, summarize the findings, repeat… The treadmill of technical project control is tedious and mind numbing. Nonetheless, it’s those precious insights into the status of progression that management must have to make intelligent decisions during the…
Tagged with: analytics, control chart, control data, earned value management, evm, project life-cycle, project management, trend projection
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Posted in Technology Management
Where is the Control Data in Agile Projects?
Traditional project control requires the collection of different types of data. These types include frequency counts, raw numbers, subject numeric ratings, and indicator and surrogate measures. But where do we find these in Agile managed projects?
Analyzing Uncertainty Inherent in New Projects
To evaluate the uncertainty of adding a project to the firm’s portfolio, project managers conduct risk analysis activities such as simulation. Crystal Ball is a tool for conducting simulations quickly and with an appropriate level of frequency. Since comparable information…
Tagged with: Crystal Ball, discount rate, distribution model, net present value, NPV, portfolio management, project portfolio, qualitative, quantitative, uncertainty
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Posted in Technology Management
Risk Management Techniques for Complex Projects
The WBS is a Risk Analysis Tool A work breakdown structure (WBS) is a coded and categorized view of the project as a group of well-understood deliverables. The WBS forms a concrete path toward meeting the high-level product requirements from the project charter.…
Tagged with: complexity, project management, project planning, risk analysis, risk breakdown structure, risk management, work breakdown structure
Posted in Technology Management
Posted in Technology Management
Quality Management Across Profit Models: From Big Splash to Long Tails
Conditions for business success changed from the industrial shops to the manufacturing organizations operating today. One particularly important condition for success is quality management in the creation and production of new products. There exist numerous scarcity factors that impact quality…
Tagged with: long tail, manufacturing model, profit model, quality management, scientific management, service model, Taylor
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Posted in Innovation Management, Technology Management
How to Make the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For: Hitachi Data Systems and Hasbro Compared
Two relative newcomers to the Fortune® 100 Best Companies to Work For, Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) and Hasbro were ranked 63 and 92 respectively in 2013. Compiled by the Great Place to Work® Institute, the list consists of those companies…
Tagged with: Best Companies, case study, compensation, culture, Hasbro, Hitachi Data Systems, incentives, job satisfaction, organizational behavior, people management
Posted in Technology Management
Posted in Technology Management
To Comply or Compete with Emerging Standards
Word cloud created at Wordle.net Be they in the cloud, on your mobile device, or embedded in your networking infrastructure, standards bodies are working feverishly to set the context for competition. But to decide whether your organization should try to…
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