How to Say No to Unrealistic Target Dates

Melanie McBride

Chapter Chapter 7 in Managing Projects in the Real World, 2014, pp 91-98 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract It’s a fact of life that PMs will be given unrealistic target dates for their projects. Sometimes these crazy dates are driven by real-world constraints such as market windows or large corporate initiatives, but they are just as often based on wild speculation—a management team with a Magic 8 Ball and a handful of optimistic dates. This is your reality and to be successful you need a slew of tricks up your sleeve to inject some reality into those pipe dreams. Let me share some of my tricks of the trade.

Keywords: Change Request; Program Team; Solid Planning; Pipe Dream; Fire Hose (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4302-6512-2_7

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