These words have many meanings in our society. In project management its hard to find a specific meaning.
- What is the project going to cost - truthfully?
- What are the risks that are going to cause problems - truthfully?
- Who is not pulling their weight on the development team - truthfully?
- Why are we listening to that old fogie in central engineering on how to manage our project - truthfully?
- How can we let that PM run our project again, when he's failed 3 times in the recent past - truthfully?
Get a 2 foot by 4 foot piece of poster board. Get a good artist type in the office to write out the following words to fit on the board
TRUTH OVER HARMONY - Larry Bossidy
Put this poster board in the conference room, in the hall way outside the software development managers office, in the engineering lobby.
As project managers if we don't live by this principle we'll fail before we start.
