Managing IT Projects: How to Pragmatically Deliver Projects for External Customers

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M. DąbrowskiManaging IT Projectshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9243-3_19

19. Managing Delays

Marcin Dąbrowski¹  

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Nowy Wiśnicz, Poland

 

Delay is preferable to error.

—Thomas Jefferson

It’s more than certain that delays will happen at some stage of the project. Shorter or longer, sooner or later, but they will definitely happen. To a large extent, managing a project is organizing the team’s work in such a way that blockers are avoided or minimized if they do happen, in order to create an environment that will enable the team to work effectively. Delays happen and they always will, especially at the level of single, individual tasks done by specific people. ...