ABSTRACT
To see the kinds of things that can happen, let’s look at a situation that could occur much later in a project. Janet is managing the project she earlier bid on, but things aren’t going well.
Monday It’s only noon on Monday and already I feel completely used up. Things started to go downhill early. I had just gotten a cup of coffee and sat down at my desk, trying to make sense of our current schedules. Manny, my boss, walked into my office, sat down and said “Janet, we’ve got a problem with the XR-15 project. Jim tells me that he has a complete roadblock, and your guys are the only ones who can get it unglued quickly. Sorry, but he’s way behind schedule right now, and any extra delay is likely to cost us big. I need to loan him Mike and Steve for a couple of days.”
