Tonight's posts on PMHut, brought an interesting contrast
- Pawel Brodzinski speaks about the issues of projects that encounter wrong or missed estimates
- Robert Prieto continues his series on Lessons Learned from Major Projects
Both are in the business of managing projects. Both have experience in their respective domains. Not knowing either personally, I'll assume both are compete practitioners of their profession.
But the language is on opposite ends of the spectrum. It just struck me as an example of the vast gap between the definition of "project management." I work in the domain familiar to Robert. All the same problems encountered by Pawel. But different responses.
If one of our clients customers came and said "cut the schedule in 1/2" there would be a huge laughing sound from the highest ranks of the providing organization. If have personal experience watching our commercial side PM's receive the same request and respond with "we'll try every thing we can to meet your request."
No wonder IT projects have high failure rates. They fail from self inflicted wounds.
