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You Can't Solve Project Issues With a Calculator

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Sometimes we can get a bit project management tools crazy.

This can be a really big problem if we fall back on our spreadsheets, gantt charts, and staffing calculations in an attempt to solve our problems.  These are tools, and can be very useful in helping to model a plan that we can then go execute on.

But putting it into a tool doesn't make it happen, and trying to communicate via entries in a tool is not an effective way to solve problems.

I hear you mumbling..."of course Josh.  Duh!  Why would you even write about this?"

Unfortunately, I write about it because I see it happening every day.

When a problem arises, what's your first step? 

Do you go talk to your team and stakeholders, or do you first go to a schedule?

Calculators don't solve problems....people do.

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Posted on: March 15, 2011 08:22 AM | Permalink

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