Exposing the broken bones

Are any of the following familiar?

• Have you ever had a feeling that another scope change would be the straw that broke your project?

• Did your project team seem to be working in a vacuum, isolated from other parts of the business - especially the eventual customers?

• No matter how closely you were following the prescribed methodology, were people pulling in different directions?

These are all symptoms of the vulnerabilities that can exist in a project. If left untreated, these symptoms result in breaks which can be painful, perhaps invisible, and surrounded with infection.