Radical Project Management

Situation 2

Mary is a project manager specializing in PC-based applications. She is evaluating a new mission-critical system request and is considering alternative development platforms. Although she is sure that the system can be developed in Clipper, a development platform in which she and her team have considerable experience, she is interested in Smalltalk and its associated object-oriented approach. Although the Smalltalk platform will raise the inherent risk of the project and would require a much longer development time frame, she decides that Smalltalk will be more personally interesting and challenging and recommends it as the development platform.