With my real projects,

it is risk and mitigation. At the end of the day, just like life in general, you can't always have everything you want, for the price you want to pay, in the time you want it. So a huge part of project management is about guiding your stakeholders to make choices between those three.

When you have a fixed deadline you have only two variables - quality and money. Same with transfers.

A rubbish project manager will say yes sir and not deliver according to expectations. (E.g spend 8.5m on Ricky van wolfswinkel). A good one will manage with risk and mitigations, manage expectations and stakeholders. And most importantly will indicate when the project has insufficient return on investment and advise not to do it.

Posted By: Steve in Holland, Sep 1, 09:01:42