What if you could have every base covered? Wouldn't that be amazing? You have all the information you need to make great decisions. All information and status updates you need to have the best and most accurate status reports and the most interesting and productive meetings possible?
Even though this seems to sound like it is focused on project managers, it is not. I am going to direct this at business analysts. One - because it's my article and I often handle both roles and can do what I want AND Two - because business analysts in certain projects actually perform the more communicative and facilitator role than the more figurehead project manager. It depends on the project. But there are always those pitfalls. Those behaviors that can be detrimental to the project and we may not even know we are doing things wrong. Consider these five and then let me know what you think...