If you’re in project management, one of the issues you’ll inevitably deal with is an unrealistic project scope. Project stakeholders (usually a senior member of management wants to achieve revenue targets of $X million within a very short timeframe). My opinion has always been this – if project scope is unrealistic at the outset, you […]

Imagine you’re running a system implementation project. Everything is going well and milestones are being met. All stakeholders are happy. Suddenly a user highlights to you that the system just HAS to do something that was never planned for. It just HAS to have a field to track a customer bankruptcy status. It HAS to […]