Chapter 5. Things Rarely Turn out As Expected

Despite our best efforts, there will always be surprises. This chapter talks about minimizing the number and effect of surprises.

Questions

1:

Why should you have contingency or margin for error in your plans?

  1. Because you'd be mad not to.

  2. To be able to deal with unexpected things.

  3. To be able to contain the effect of unexpected things within your project and stop them from affecting related projects.

  4. Because you'll almost invariably use it.

A1:

(a) 5 points

I mean it to be literally true. If you believe that things will turn out precisely as you predicted—despite the fact that this has probably never happened to anyone in their whole life—then you must be mad!

(b) 5 points

Yes.

(c) 5 points

Yes. Let's say, for ...

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