ABSTRACT
Equipped with a thorough plan and a logical schedule, we are finally ready to go to work. This is quite an exciting time. The team is bringing on consultants, sending off orders, and starting the process of turning those raw materials into a fine work of art. Common wisdom has it that it is also time for the project manager to pick up that clipboard and start checking things off like a foreman on a hectic loading dock. Further, we are taught that if by chance things go awry, recovery is simply a matter of fine-tuning dates, tweaking technologies, and in the worst-case scenario, invoking Plan B.
