“A clever person turns great troubles into little ones and little ones into none at all.” – Chinese Proverb If you’ve been following the series on the well-formed schedule and the subsequent series of posts, you are aware that from the WBS you create estimates and iteratively refine those estimates …
Two (or six) months into your project, you and your business owner disagree about whether a particular feature or component is included in the project. You, of course, consider this controversial item obscure and expensive to include; the business owner, in contrast, asserts that it is absolutely essential, the whole …
“Project status this week, in a nutshell, is that we are continuing to stay on schedule, but this is despite your team’s contribution.” After the initial chit-chat, Srini intentionally opened the status meeting with a statement to get everyone’s attention, especially the Sponsor and Owner Jack. “Our project team has …
