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Get Sponsor Approval Before Investigating Large Scope Change Requests

Mike Miller and I had not worked together for several months but we got together for some basketball last weekend at a park near my house. After the game, he mentioned some problems with a new project to install document management software at our worldwide regional headquarters. In fact, his team had fallen behind on the project. A very laid-back guy, Mike didn’t appear to be too worried about the delays, but I asked him to drop by my office on Tuesday to discuss things.

“Come on in Mike. Thanks for the game last weekend!”

“Sure thing, Coach. Hope you weren’t too sore that ...

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