Rules of Project Management

Han Lei forwarded an article to us, which is very interesting. It is indeed that the project was almost extended by if he heard the following four statements about perfection.

In recent months, when I was working on a project or observing my colleagues, I also found several interesting rules:
First, the project delay risk is directly proportional to the minimum unit planned to be implemented, that is, the finer the project plan is, the lower the project delay risk. For example, if the project plan is accurate to the day, the Project Extension Unit is the day, the Week, and the extension unit is the week, which is very interesting.
2. The communication frequency and communication capability of the project owner and the stakeholders (superiors, colleagues, and customers) are inversely proportional to the project delay risk and the one-time pass rate, that is, the higher the communication capability of the project owner, the higher the communication frequency, the lower the risk of project extension, and the higher the project communication rate.
Third, the more people participate in cross-department project feasibility meetings, especially the more participants of senior management and department heads, the higher the project progress and quality.
4. The higher the planning capability of the project owner, the less detail the project owner may have. Because planning is a process of thinking, and thinking is most likely to fall into perfection, the owner with strong preliminary planning ability may have a poorer grasp of the details, however, in the process of pursuing "perfection", we may consider it in a comprehensive manner, and the more details we can grasp.

The following is a citation:
The best reason for delay: perfection comes from: Che dong [blog ^ 2]

I have recently read three consecutive analysis articles on the causes of work delays (two solidot technology articles and one sanlin's
Zhi), finally understands that the most easily blinded reason is that it sounds like a more perfect solution.
Case.

If you hear a similar reason for delay without the ability to distinguish and Control, this is often the beginning of failure.
1. There is a more perfect solution to this problem, which takes three months to complete;
2. A dedicated system needs to be developed from the ground up, which is more flexible than before;
3. A blanket statistics is required for all data. The accuracy is as high as 4 to 9 and it takes 2 months;
4. There is not much time today. I will finish the whole book when I have spare time;

The success rate of these promises is almost the same as that of gamblers who "win back all the losses.

Solution/policy:
1. There is no distinction between ease and difficulty. Only importance and no importance (importance comes from data analysis );
2. Ask the procrastinator to set the completion time: do not allow the time; otherwise, the delay itself will be a reward for laziness;
3. Qualitative and quantitative;
4. Perfect false recognition and immunity;