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White Paper:
Your Toughest Project – Ever

By Bill Flury You have just been offered the opportunity to be the Project Manager of a new project. That’s the good news. The bad news is that it is likely to be the toughest project you will ever undertake. When you learn what’s involved…
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What If You Held A Best Practices
Meeting… And Nobody Came?

By Bill Flury First Meeting: A Great Idea We were discussing how we could get started with the business of process improvement. Mickey said, “Hey! I’ve got a great idea! The Quality folks are always telling us that we should be on…
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How Fast Tracking Saved My Life

By Craig Brown Numerous articles and presentations abound about crashing or fast tracking a schedule.  These techniques are designed to get your project back on schedule but with risks and costs, which may make the practice less attractive. …
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A 3 Foot Piece of String
Can Save Your Project

By Bill Flury We were getting going on a major system conversion process. Our job was to replace a legacy image processing system with all new hardware and software. Our team included three contractors, one for software, one for the computing…
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What are You Getting Yourself Into?
Transitioning Into a Leadership Role

By Chris Hitch, Ph.D. & Rick Rocchetti . "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them." - William Shakespeare Whatever steps have brought you to this point, one thing is clear as you start…
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Ain’t Doin’ Right:
Diagnosing Project Ailments

By Bill Flury Have you ever had a pet dog or cat or bird that wasn’t acting like its usual self? You probably asked it what was the problem and you never got back a Woof, Meow or Tweet about what their problem was. So, you took your ailing…