42 MANAGE FIXED DATE PROJECTS CAREFULLY

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Some projects are already time-bound when you receive them. Maybe there are regulatory requirements to meet by a certain date. Perhaps your CEO has promised a major customer something by the end of the year while they were out on a corporate golf day. Projects with fixed end dates present a different type of planning challenge for project managers. Instead of being able to analyse and plan, you are told what to do and when to do it by. Some degree of direction is good – after all, you cannot justify a three-month planning phase for a project that ends up only taking six weeks. The analysis part of planning ...

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