Extreme Project Management

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Extreme Project Management

Charles Ludwig

October 29, 2003






Since this article is about extreme project management, let's first identify the two "extremes" in project management.

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The first extreme is the "just do it" approach to project management. There is no real planning, and everyone begins to work on different pieces of the project. There is no overall coordination of the tasks or plan for how the pieces will fit together to accomplish the project objectives. Speaking of the objectives, these were probably not clearly defined or perhaps not defined at all. The obvious problem with this approach is that it doesn't work and the project will run over-budget, over-schedule...and fail.

 

The second extreme is "cross every T and dot every I." The planning process is done at such a detailed level that the project never really gets started.



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