What are the symptoms of ineffective planning?

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Riyadh Salih Saskatchewan, Canada

How quickly you can discover the symptoms of ineffective project planning? and make a wake-up call

Few of the things are:

that you notice the team are running in reactive rather than proactive mode

Delays occurs frequently

Mismanagement is highly visible

Posted: Jan 9, 2019 11:57 PM

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Riyadh Salih Saskatchewan, Canada

Jan 10, 2019 3:06 AM

Replying to RAJESH K L

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Impact on Team member attendance and participation.
Taking leaves and giving lame excuses etc are also other symptioms

Rajesh, thanks for your points but I think the attendance issue can be controlled because you are the one to approve the leaves

Posted: Jan 10, 2019 9:45 PM

Riyadh Salih Saskatchewan, Canada

Jan 10, 2019 7:23 AM

Replying to Kiron Bondale

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Riyadh -

Significant variation from what was expected. Whether that is a budget overrun, unforeseen technical issues, team member shortfalls or escalating stakeholder discontent, if your plans are too different than reality, you will be left dealing with the resulting gap.

Kiron

Kiron, thanks for your continuous feedback, I have seen a lot of the un-detected technical issues due to lack of experience on the related subject and all falls on me to cover and fix, I started to have more reviews with the team to see if they have missed something and usually I end up adding 3-4 points when it comes to my area expertise.

Posted: Jan 10, 2019 9:48 PM

Riyadh Salih Saskatchewan, Canada

Jan 10, 2019 8:57 AM

Replying to Thomas Walenta

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You might get away with ineffective planning, if you have a perfect team and a supportive sponsor and everybody heads into the same direction. Many plans are figleafs anyway, e.g. with large government projects like Sydney opera house or Berlin airport. As German General von Moltke once said: no plan survives the first contact with the enemy.
Sure, planning is necessary to be better prepared for ANY situation. Ask a firefighter.

Taking up agile thinking, being adaptive and resilient is more important than establishing a project bureaucracy.

Thomas, thank you for highlighting a different approach and adaptive way to look at the frequent changes and focus on end results my only concern that to find a team aware of the agile methodology and 80% can be adaptive to ensure success of the project but I will be more prepared to expect and accept this in future.

Posted: Jan 10, 2019 9:52 PM

Amit Sharma Project Manager| IT Major Delhi, Delhi, India

Typically, warning signal starts coming from the immediate supervisor. Always listen to them very carefully!

Posted: Jan 11, 2019 3:41 AM

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