- - Starting too fast – getting the project going before it’s really ready to start and before it had been well defined by the customer and well planned out by the project manager and team.
- - The vague project budget– moving forward on the project with no definite budget in place or a very vague one. Without the financial target in place at the beginning of the project, the scope may change and the financial affects will be hard to pinpoint or justify, and without any budget you can never have the project be deemed a financial success…meaning it will always be in question.
In this third installment, we’ll discuss the problem of the indecisive project customer. A customer who comes into the project without a clear focus of the requirements of needs of the project will be presenting the project manager and team with an ever-moving target. Let’s examine this in further detail…