CHAPTER 18

Get the Important Stuff Done

Project management can be a maelstrom of activity and events. These events emanate from inside and outside the project. They relate to every level of the project like a high-level strategic partner taking a change of direction to a personal crisis of a team member. Most of the issues are detail and can be a fog, clouding the critical problems and distracting from important tasks that must be delivered.

Overall success is most likely to be achieved if the sponsor and project manager are clear what the vital deliveries are and what they depend on. They communicate this to the team, and priority goes to the right things, sacrificing what can be lost and delaying what can be delivered late.

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