How would you deal with a project that was delayed for 4 months you had a month to complete it, you also have 3 other projects that were due at the same time, you were under staffed and could only get 1 additional developer Saving Changes...
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Drew CraigSr. Agile & Product Coach| VanguardPhiladelphia, Pa, United States
Not sure there is really enough context to make a call here. Usually, it is the responsibility of someone else to determine priority and resource allocation. Do you have that responsibility? From there, what is the size of the project? Is one month enough with one developer? Only you can tell us that. Why was it delayed 4 months?
I was recently in a similar situation, that based on incoming higher priority projects, a couple of the projects I had were adjusted b/c the resources were taken from FT to 75% allocation. I met with the Stakeholders and explained the situation and new schedule. This was not a capital project with no direct charge back, so no cost impacts, just schedule. I
n the end, we can only perform so much work with the available resources. At some point, things are impacted and shuffled around. Does that provide enough of a basis for increased budget to acquire more resources? Saving Changes...
Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
I leave in Argentina. As you know, the Pope is Argentinian. In this situation I said: because the Pope is Argentinian I had the possibility to talk with God. And we have a deal. God will not perform as project manager to make project management. I will not perform as God to make miracles. While I need more information about this (if you need help send me an email to [email protected] or, better, is to continue the discussion in this forum because you can have valuable comments as Andrew´s comment) it sounds impossible to achieve. But, what I would do in your position is: 1-create all information needed to sit at the table to people that must take a decision about this. 2-with that information those people must take the decision to kill the project, put the project on-hold, continue with the project and in this case the needed resource must to be giving to you. Saving Changes...
Mike DewingSenior Project Manager / Program Manager| MLD Holdings Ltd.Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
Similar comment as Andrew. Need a whole lot more info but end of the day you are honest with the executives and have them make a decision on what projects have the priorities and resource allocations. Saving Changes...
Stakeholder management is the key. You need to speak to the senior stakeholders for each project and sponsors, understand the business value/ benefit for each project and you should be able to decide which project should be prioritized.
This is not your decision, you can recommend and advise, but this has to be fact based not a judgment call.
Of course, it may not be a binary decision, you will have to consider political factors, such as which projects are sponsored by key people in the organisation! Saving Changes...
