Most often because management wouldn’t hold up their end of the deal. They wanted to stick to a hard timeline, but wouldn’t approve a milestone or sit on a decision for days and weeks. That would cascade down and stress everyone out later. Deadlines work both ways.
Another one was not making people who had special knowledge available. Or those people would drag their feet because they were busy elsewhere.
Best solution was to have someone in upper management as a ‘sponsor.’ If things didn’t happen on time you told them about the schedule impact without throwing anyone under the bus. Funny how things would start happening.
Not the same, but as a consultant, used to fire clients all the time. Very satisfying.
Hell yeah living my dream. What would you fire them for? Any patterns?
Most often because management wouldn’t hold up their end of the deal. They wanted to stick to a hard timeline, but wouldn’t approve a milestone or sit on a decision for days and weeks. That would cascade down and stress everyone out later. Deadlines work both ways.
Another one was not making people who had special knowledge available. Or those people would drag their feet because they were busy elsewhere.
Best solution was to have someone in upper management as a ‘sponsor.’ If things didn’t happen on time you told them about the schedule impact without throwing anyone under the bus. Funny how things would start happening.