Comments on: Dealing with out-of-control projects http://www.talash.net/blog/dealing-with-out-of-control-projects/73/ Blog space for Indus Net Community Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:45:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Mukul Gupta http://www.talash.net/blog/dealing-with-out-of-control-projects/73/#comment-1583 Thu, 23 Nov 2006 05:40:59 +0000 http://www.talash.net/blog/dealing-with-out-of-control-projects/73/#comment-1583 Thanks a lot Austin. I will surely be a regular reader of your blog. Thanks a lot Austin. I will surely be a regular reader of your blog.

]]> by: Austin Bob http://www.talash.net/blog/dealing-with-out-of-control-projects/73/#comment-1564 Wed, 22 Nov 2006 16:18:53 +0000 http://www.talash.net/blog/dealing-with-out-of-control-projects/73/#comment-1564 An interesting post. I think you have described the problem well, but may have been too optimistic about the approach to correction. It seems to me that we get in these situations in the first place because we have been overly optimistic about both our planning abilities and our communications abilities. True communication (leading to a truly shared understanding) is always harder than we think it is, no matter how hard we think it is. Still, I think you're on the right track. I'm working on a series of project management essays ... the first of which, <a href="http://hither-and-yon.blogspot.com/2006/11/why-projects-fail.html" title="Why Projects Fail" rel="nofollow"> has been posted on my blog.</a> An interesting post. I think you have described the problem well, but may have been too optimistic about the approach to correction. It seems to me that we get in these situations in the first place because we have been overly optimistic about both our planning abilities and our communications abilities. True communication (leading to a truly shared understanding) is always harder than we think it is, no matter how hard we think it is.

Still, I think you’re on the right track. I’m working on a series of project management essays … the first of which, has been posted on my blog.

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