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Why Teams Won’t Plan
Bill is President, Project Management Partners in Lexington, Mass., and is a consultant and trainer.
You’ve heard it before: “failing to plan is planning to fail.” And still countless projects suffer from inadequate planning. But the most common justifications (there isn’t enough time; the project isn’t that complex) tend to obscure deeper problems. Here are three major causes of lackluster planning and some straightforward
Yet the fact remains that many projects still suffer from inadequate planning. When I ask experienced project managers to tell me why they hadn’t developed an adequate plan, they invariably mention one of the following reasons:
~ “There wasn’t enough time.” This idea is sometimes expressed as “there was pressure to get started on “real work.”
~ “This project was almost identical to an earlier project. We thought we knew what had to be done.”
~ “It was a small project so there seemed to be little risk in not planning.”
I am confident that all of these project managers are …
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