24 DOCUMENT ASSUMPTIONS
In any project there are things you don’t know. It is impractical to wait until everything is a known fact before work on the project starts. In order to start work, it is necessary to form some assumptions – statements about what you believe to be the case – to create a position from which to begin. These will be proved or disproved as you work on the project.
WORKING IN THE DARK
‘One killer in terms of scope and budget for projects can be assumptions,’ says Neville Turbit, a convenor of the Australian Computer Society Project Management group and principal of the project management software and consultancy firm Project ...
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