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New project manager, new project. We already have a target deadline with only a partial understanding of requirements. Obviously, the project deadline is a guess but will be perceived as a failure if not met.
New project manager, new project. We already have a target deadline with only a partial understanding of requirements. Obviously, the project deadline is a guess but will be perceived as a failure if not met.
New project manager, new project. We already have a target deadline with only a partial understanding of requirements. Obviously, the project deadline is a guess but will be perceived as a failure if not met.
And relax....
How have they picked the deadline?
Have they started with the start date, put the tasks in a project plan with dependencies and seen what finish date there is? Or have they made up a date and tried to cram everything in based on that?
NLUK's right about the level of project managers about these days.
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist
New project manager, new project. We already have a target deadline with only a partial understanding of requirements. Obviously, the project deadline is a guess but will be perceived as a failure if not met.
And relax....
is there any other way?
currently burning through 200 resource hours because the PM guessed. I will probably work 100
4 more of these projects to do so I'm going to have an easy year from these.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Speaking with my old delivery manager hat on, if you put the tasks into a schedule, added the effort and worked to the resulting date, nothing would ever get delivered.
We already have a target deadline with only a partial understanding of requirements.
Perfect!
"We need something delivered by this date"
"No problem, we'll deliver something. Might not be what you expected/wanted, but you didn't define it so we delivered what we could in the time given, therefore from our side it is a successful project. The failure is in the project management."
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