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Planning Planet Annecdote

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Sun, 2005-11-27 13:57
Charleston-Joseph...
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Hi Guys,

How about planning annecdote that will brigthen our days.

I have this project that happened long ago. Our project manager wants to overcome the delays and the big variance between the plan progress and actual progress.


I suggeted that we make some leapfrogging. The basic philosophy i took from the pacifc campaing of General Douglas MacArthur. The idea is to leapfrog from one floor to the next floor.

Initially the implementation of the plan was a success. However, as time moves on, we notice that a lot of our resources started to ’LEAPFROG" from the top floors. Our worst fear started to materialize when someone started to "LEAPFROG" to solve some financial and personal problems.

Eventually, the project management team decided to stop the theory of "LEAPFROGGING" and come up with a new solution to mitigate delays and always ahead with the actual progress compare with plan progress.

The above is only an annecdote.

cheers,

Charlie
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