Poor Planning Examples
• Do an inadequate job of identifying the stakeholders and determining how they should be involved….
• Do an inadequate job of developing metrics to evaluate the project….
• Do an inadequate job of determining the processes for project administration and governance….
Poor Planning Outcomes
• The later problems are discovered, the more complex and costly it is to recover from them and not every company has the time or resources to do so.
• Recovery from complex problems often requires not only re-planning, but a willingness to acknowledge failures and remedy them.
• When projects address urgent situations, failures may occur because of the constraints of the schedule and the tendency to compress planning.
• Retrospectives after the project or after a certain milestone are good to have with the project team to determine what went wrong and how that can be addressed in the future.