Comments on: On Prioritizing Your Projects http://www.pmhut.com/on-prioritizing-your-projects Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:01:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Laura Bamberg http://www.pmhut.com/on-prioritizing-your-projects/comment-page-1#comment-18237 Laura Bamberg Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:12:32 +0000 http://www.pmhut.com/?p=4892#comment-18237 If a mandate has come down straight from the top, chances are the CEO or the board has made promises to the customer before the PM ever hears about it. Waving a business plan in the face of said executive(s) isn't really going to help much for two reasons - it won't change their mind, and the reason is that they've already made a promise and they aren't going to break it for fear of looking irresponsible. Therefore, someone has to decide what to do about the others, you're correct. Hopefully it isn't the PM having to go to customers that are already expecting a project schedule to begin within a few days and have to be told that the company is having to put it off. Maybe the company hires extra staff for the time being, which they really can't afford, to save face to all the customers expecting active projects. I'm not sure. When a company steps outside its business strategy to please a friend or a highly lucrative customer, I would ask they bear in mind the long-term consequences - lack of trust from customers and staff, very low staff morale, and lack of credibility if you can't deliver. If a mandate has come down straight from the top, chances are the CEO or the board has made promises to the customer before the PM ever hears about it. Waving a business plan in the face of said executive(s) isn’t really going to help much for two reasons - it won’t change their mind, and the reason is that they’ve already made a promise and they aren’t going to break it for fear of looking irresponsible.

Therefore, someone has to decide what to do about the others, you’re correct. Hopefully it isn’t the PM having to go to customers that are already expecting a project schedule to begin within a few days and have to be told that the company is having to put it off.

Maybe the company hires extra staff for the time being, which they really can’t afford, to save face to all the customers expecting active projects. I’m not sure. When a company steps outside its business strategy to please a friend or a highly lucrative customer, I would ask they bear in mind the long-term consequences - lack of trust from customers and staff, very low staff morale, and lack of credibility if you can’t deliver.

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