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You Can't Be Serious?!

William Knight

October 13, 2003







When you are blessed with talented staff, a simple vision and a realistic timeframe for completion, how can you make sure your project is only as good as the last--and does not make your life stressful by exceeding expectations?

 

The halcyon days of software project management are gone; failing to plan is not planning to fail anymore, it is planning to lose your job. Because you have read all the books, know the terms and the appropriate techniques for running a good project--and doubtless been on training courses to consolidate your experience--to destroy a project you have to be far subtler than simply not planning.

 

To manage a project to failure and still maintain a career, you must tick the appropriate quality and assurance boxes on the way and have plausible deniability for the disaster.



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