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Choose Your Own Adventure

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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Choose Your Own Adventure

Decision Making and Contingency Planning in Project Management
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Alice Came to a Fork in the Road

  • The moment of truth

Operation Eagle Claw

Decision Trees

Decisions Decisions

How well did you choose?

Know the Tree is There

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Get all the Facts

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Clear Expectations

Clear Expectations

  • Be clear what is expected of you
  • What does success look like?
  • The only stupid question...
  • Do you homework
  • Do what is asked of you...and only
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Good Estimates

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Good Estimates

  • Don't pad...but
  • If they asked me for more time/money/whatever, I would have given it to them.”
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Deal with It

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Dealing with It

  • Five stages of grief...quickly
  • Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance, 
  • The victor is the one that can move quickly through these
  • Don't dwell on your failure
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Lessons Learned

  • Do them!!!!!!
  • No regrets, only lessons learned
  • It's a process
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Contingency Planning

  • Sub-Team
  • List Tasks/Processes
  • Assumptions/Risks
  • Prioritize
  • Plan high priority reactions
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Contingency Planning

  • Review
  • Test
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