Working Back From the Due Date
Most performance consulting projects start with a fixed due date. People who have admitted to problems do not have a lot of time to wait for a solution. Even if the problems have existed for months or even years, understanding the magnitude of the problem because of your analysis work accelerates the desire for resolution.
So, in the real world (versus the world in project management books), you don’t have unlimited time and resources to finish a project, especially a performance consulting project. Instead, you have to work backward and use the time you have. To manage this frustrating reality, here is an algorithm that is based on the PACT phases:
| Plan | 10 percent |
| Analyze | 40 percent |
| Create | 30 percent |
| Transition | 20 percent ... |
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