Letting a project fail

[Doggy Styles]

did you think of bringing your quite obviously unique talent, experience, insight and brilliance to bear to offer solutions to the myriad of issues?

i.e. thump the director?

[milanbenes]

failure is what we want isn't it ?

as a contractor when I am looking for work if I have two potential interviews like:

contract a

Project Manager has everything under control, good processes, procedures, documentation, and he said, Mr Benes you will come in here for three months, install this .Net system, document it and the F off


contract b

Project Manager says, everything is going tits, nothing's working, all kind of problems, doesn't know where to start



I takes contract b, cos I knows that one's gonna be a long runner

so there you have it

tricks of the trade # 154

project failure = success for contractors


Milan.

[shaunbhoy]

failure is what we want isn't it ?

contract b

Project Manager says, everything is going tits, nothing's working, all kind of problems, doesn't know where to start




Milan.

The bonus for you here though benesy is that said Project Manager does not draw those conclusions until just AFTER you have left!!

[MrMark]

Interesting thread. It seems I made a mistake in previously putting MF on the ignored list.

As for the thread question - I suspect it's a case of covering one's culo, and building the lifeboat. You can bring a horse to water, but you can't make it drink...

[zamzummim]

What would you do if you worked at a client that kept making the wrong priorization calls on projects, that had bitten off more work than it could handle and in the delivery of that work kept prototyping new products to bring in more work but without actually putting resource on the existing work.

Having been managing projects that were ahead of schedule, all of my resource has been pulled. Now all of my projects are behind and at risk. The projects that resource were pulled on are now at risk and one has failed.

Again today I have come in to find that halfway though the day that resource was pulled off, hence not finishing what they were working on and now stopping me from progressing. I'm now fiddling as the fires start and the next phase is now missed.

The client is not project planning or resource planning anything. They are constantly caught off guard when someone goes sick or on holiday.

I've gone through all the usual processes. Provided a resource plan, pointed out the risks, CYA'd, escalated to the director in charge(he's part of the problem).
Having spent a number of years running the show, this contract is at the bottom of the heap, nice to see it from a different perspective.

Should I care because when the tulip hits the fan I'll still be here?

MF.... after all these years, you never change
Its just work, let it go!

[Zippy]

Are you really letting the project fail though, MF? From what you said there isn't much you can do about it.
As previously said - cover your arse, bill, chill.

[MarillionFan]

Are you really letting the project fail though, MF? From what you said there isn't much you can do about it.
As previously said - cover your arse, bill, chill.

I never fail at anything.

[EternalOptimist]

I never fail at anything.

damn. they brought the green kryptonite

[suityou01]

I never fail at anything.

Even running tat shops?

[MarillionFan]

Even running tat shops?

Nope.

Annoyingly came out 25-30k ahead(yet to finish the accounts)

Oh btw. I've got $15 dollar here and a broken laptop. Dance monkey . Dance!