The Dream Team Nightmare

Fortune Telling

“To create a future reality tree, we simply turn things upside down and inside out,” you say with a reassuring smile. Owen continues to stare at the current reality tree as though he could will the future into existence.

You point to the bottommost row of sticky notes in the current reality tree.

“What if we had clear project goals?” you say while writing out “clear project goals” on a sticky note.

“We’d be able to know what’s in scope and, more importantly, what’s out of scope,” suggests Owen. You write down “clear scope” on another sticky note.

“We’d also be able to, at the very least, assign relative business value to ...