I realize that living an error-free life, running an error-free project, or conducting an error-free business or consulting practice is just not in the cards. Perfection is nice to strive for, but it is extremely hard to achieve. Over the 135 years of Major League Baseball history, and well over 300,000 games played, there have been only 23 official perfect games. That means that when a pitcher in the major leagues takes the mound - all other things being equal (ability, fielding skills of teammates, etc.) - there is less than a 0.008% chance of him throwing a perfect game. And that means if you are in attendance, there is less than a .016% chance of you witnessing a perfect game from either team. There have been spans of as many as 33 years between perfect games. Using the numbers above, on average, there is only one thrown about every 6 years.
Back to business and project management. Perfection…the perfect project…it just doesn’t happen. But we want to strive for that, right? But in reality, we often can’t remember to always send attachments with our emails when we say, “See attached,” so it is understandable how hard it is to do things perfectly over the course of the long project. I think I could personally make a small fortune by creating an app that would pop up and say, “Are you sure?” after you hit the send key giving you one more time to proof that important email.
Back to business and project management. Perfection…the perfect project…it just doesn’t happen. But we want to strive for that, right? But in reality, we often can’t remember to always send attachments with our emails when we say, “See attached,” so it is understandable how hard it is to do things perfectly over the course of the long project. I think I could personally make a small fortune by creating an app that would pop up and say, “Are you sure?” after you hit the send key giving you one more time to proof that important email.
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