February 22, 2005
The Delicate Balance
Every LIMS project delicately balances schedule, quality, and resources (costs). Project managers know implicitly that affecting any one of the project elements will affect another. Reducing resources will affect either quality or schedule. Adding quality may increase the resource needs or schedule (or likely both). Every project experiences change and forces project managers to make a decision. That decision should be based on the...
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February 14, 2005
The Second Mistake Is the Worst
When dealing with customers, a mistake usually immediately leads to a second chance to get the problem right. Failing that leads to big problems.
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February 08, 2005
Project Manager Qualifications
How many projects have you seen where a person had the title of 'project manager' or 'project lead'? How many of those individuals have been able to effectively lead the project? Did that project or project segment get implemented successfully? Too many times unqualified and untrained resources are given the title and role of project manager and asked to bring a project to completion successfully.
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February 04, 2005
System Changes
Last week, the hard drive in my notebook started to fail. When cold, the drive would behave properly, but after any prolonged use it would start making a whirling noise and it would fail. So, I did the logical thing and started the process of replacing the hard drive in my notebook with a new one.
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