Comments on: A Failure Is an Option http://blog.brodzinski.com/2008/11/failure-is-option.html Dealing with software projects in real life Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:07:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Pawel Brodzinski http://blog.brodzinski.com/2008/11/failure-is-option.html#comment-2054 Pawel Brodzinski Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:35:00 +0000 http://blog.brodzinski.com/2008/11/a-failure-is-an-option.html#comment-2054 From my experience this approach isn't limited to fresh meat in project management or management in general. Quite often seasoned managers still believe they are gods and they can change the reality. Unless you can convince them to change their minds you can only walk as they hit the wall hard with their heads.<br/><br/>I don't know if that's funny or scary but even then they rarely learn. From my experience this approach isn’t limited to fresh meat in project management or management in general. Quite often seasoned managers still believe they are gods and they can change the reality. Unless you can convince them to change their minds you can only walk as they hit the wall hard with their heads.

I don’t know if that’s funny or scary but even then they rarely learn.

]]> By: Phil http://blog.brodzinski.com/2008/11/failure-is-option.html#comment-2053 Phil Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:30:00 +0000 http://blog.brodzinski.com/2008/11/a-failure-is-an-option.html#comment-2053 Something I tell young PMs I mentor is that, in short, you are not a god. If you were a god you could make a plan and force reality to conform to it. You are a PM and you make a plan that your experience, research, due diligence and forethought tell you is how reality will look but when reality has other ideas you'd better be ready. Watch your trends, your SPI and CPI and keep a close watch on your team and adjust early when the real world starts looking less and less like your plan.<br/><br/>Funny thing is most PMs I've told this to look at me like I've just dropped a pink hippo in their lap. Something I tell young PMs I mentor is that, in short, you are not a god. If you were a god you could make a plan and force reality to conform to it. You are a PM and you make a plan that your experience, research, due diligence and forethought tell you is how reality will look but when reality has other ideas you’d better be ready. Watch your trends, your SPI and CPI and keep a close watch on your team and adjust early when the real world starts looking less and less like your plan.

Funny thing is most PMs I’ve told this to look at me like I’ve just dropped a pink hippo in their lap.

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