Chapter 23. The Success Sliders Redux

“Do you smell that?…Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know one time we had a hill bombed, for over 12 hours. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like…victory.”

Lieutenant Colonel Kilgore (Robert Duvall)[1]

[1] Apocalypse Now Francis Ford Coppola, Director; John Milius and Francis Ford Coppola, Writers, 1979.

Of all the eXtreme project management tools, our favorite and our clients' favorite is the success sliders.

We developed this tool in the early 1990s as a simple and quick method to understand and model expectations.

When we mention the word expectations to most project managers and business analysts, we ...

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