Baseless Project Deliverable Timelines
September 30, 2006 by Milo Riano
“Don’t tell me it can’t be done. It can be done and do it!” How many of you worked with superiors who has this mentality? How many of you are like this? It’s funny how a lot of managers and leaders ask tasks to be accomplished without having a basis for their demand. They know it’s theoretically possible and don’t care much about other factors that help determine a project’s timeline.
Before demanding for deliverables make sure you have created a list of tasks, complexity and resources and have plotted the correct amount of time for each of them before making decisions. You have to realize that some tasks takes shorter for you to accomplish compared to a subordinate who hasn’t have any experience on it before. It’s important you know their skill set level and make the proper resource pooling to meet deadlines.
Before you demand for something, know what you’re demanding and to whom you’re asking it from.