scope-creep

Horror Story No. 4
This collection of project horror stories would not be complete without a tale concerning: MICROSOFT PROJECT
Listen now to the saga of The Project Toolkit Gone Awry
We were expanding, and expanding FAST.  Not five, not ten, but 200 stores were to be built-out, and it was my job to create a project [...]

Saying “no” is hard for everyone.
“If I say “no”, they will think I’m not a team player.”
“If I say “no”, they will think I’m not committed to the product’s (company’s) success.”
“If I say “no”, they will blame me for the other project’s failure (because I wouldn’t let my resource spend some time helping it).”
“If I [...]

A second complaint from my students (see yesterday’s post) is: “Management adds requirements to my project without asking me if I can still make the schedule and without taking anything away.  All the time.”
Of course, what’s “bad” about this behavior is not that requirements change: that’s expected: although there must be a limit.  What’s “bad” [...]

Tonight in a restaurant, we were charged an extra dollar for “blackening” the fish.  The waitress told us (oops, to be politically correct, I should have said “the server”) that it was a charge for the extra spices.  My companion and I commented to each other how cheap that felt – how “nickle and diming” [...]

Lilly Tomlin once said “When I was young I always wanted to BE somebody when I grew up. I just wish I’d been more specific.” Isn’t THAT the truth! Many project teams hear the shot of the starting gun and leap into figuring out HOW they will do the project before they even understand clearly [...]