Scenario and Real-Time Planning

The situation just raised is now the most common in extreme projects. The increasing rate of technology innovation and the rate of turbulence in the project environment mean that it is increasingly rare for you to be able to predict in detail all the tasks required to complete a project.

Even if you could, the rate of change in your project would condemn you to a fate worse than death: the dreaded reschedule and reprinting of the hundreds of pages that make up your schedule, only to have to repeat the effort the following week!

The solution is to start considering your project as a journey with a clear endpoint. ...

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