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By: Adrian

Adrian — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:13:05 +0000

Thanks Thomas! I’m glad you liked it. I’ve read your blog posting too, very good points and I particularly liked the idea of the Project Triangle. I’m going to investigate more about it. All the best!

By: PM Hut

PM Hut — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:24:47 +0000

An excellent article, I liked the way you handled this failing (well not anymore) project. I like the way how you shielded development from the Management, and how gave authority and leadership to the senior developer, thus increasing the overall morale.

I have published (over a year ago) an article about rescuing a failing project. The article is a set of advices, while yours is an experience you went through.

Again, an excellent article…

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By: Improbable

Improbable — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:46:49 +0000

I’d say that to save a falling project you must acknowledge the loses. Don’t ignore it, don’t try to recover from them, just concentrate on what could be saved and target your efforts there. As an analogy with emergency crisis, priorize and use the ambulances on those that can be saved: don’t waste an ambulance on the dying man.

In a falling project, usually you are over budget, over schedule, and have a poor requirements description and also a poor design. So you won’t never have a good software from this, you are lucky if you manage to complete the project without a lawsuit.

By: steve

steve — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:41:19 +0000

Are you shitting me? The Joel Test? Mr BASIC Programmer Joel? 12 for Microsoft?

I rescue failing projects for a job, and I stopped reading your post at that point.

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By: Aman Thukral

Aman Thukral — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:09:01 +0000

Great article… very true with a lot of projects in fact. And the truth is, sometimes you don’t have to be a project manager to experience this. I have seen on multiple occasions that there are teams on a big project that are doing very well and there are teams that are not fairing so good. At times, you are asked to lead such a team and you find out that most often its poor management that is responsible for the state of affairs and not the resources or the work itself. Its pretty much what you reflected in your article and I find it very common.

By: Marcus

Marcus — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:37:28 +0000

Really liked this article. In our business we call what you’ve done “business sculpting” – the art of removing constraints from people to allow them to do what they’re best at. Too often, managers get in the way and make work really difficult for the people involved. This principle you’ve practiced makes a lot of sense in all areas of business.