Topic Teasers Vol. 17: Doomed Projects

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Projects come to my team with time, scope and cost set. We are expected to add high quality on our own. No matter how skilled we are, we always fail to meet these arbitrary metrics. I’m getting burned out always coming up short, and the team has very low morale. Short of finding a new company, is there action I can take to change this scenario?

A. Management teams see and know more than project managers. You are paid to work with the parameters you are given, so do the best you can.

B.  Work with your team to do a slowdown. This will force management to listen to your concerns and change things to give the projects a better outcome.

C. Figure out a set of things that would help get projects started more realistically and list them in order of desirability. If you try the first one and it doesn’t work, try the next one.

D. Organizations that work in this manner are led by people who don’t understand projects. You are better off to find a job in another corporate setting where they assign projects in a way that you can always be successful.

Answer: C. Figure out a set of things that would help get projects started more realistically and list them in order of desirability. If you try the first one and it doesn’t work, try the next one.

Receiving projects with fixed parameters is truly a no-win situation for …

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