Comments on: Who Can Say No? http://www.summa-tech.com/blog/2009/02/03/who-can-say-no/ Summa Blog Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:51:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: jhkiley http://www.summa-tech.com/blog/2009/02/03/who-can-say-no/comment-page-1/#comment-57 jhkiley Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:54:38 +0000 http://www.summa-tech.com/blog/?p=320#comment-57 I agree that nay-saying and passive obstruction aren't, strictly speaking, constraints on the project. But they frequently do take project managers -- especially novice project managers -- by surprise. And from a project governance perspective, I think it's depressingly common for these sorts of problems to occur but never quite trickle up to the upper tiers of IT management. I agree that nay-saying and passive obstruction aren’t, strictly speaking, constraints on the project. But they frequently do take project managers — especially novice project managers — by surprise.

And from a project governance perspective, I think it’s depressingly common for these sorts of problems to occur but never quite trickle up to the upper tiers of IT management.

]]> By: PM Hut http://www.summa-tech.com/blog/2009/02/03/who-can-say-no/comment-page-1/#comment-51 PM Hut Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:04:37 +0000 http://www.summa-tech.com/blog/?p=320#comment-51 I have to say that the examples given as "unexpected" and "unseen" constraints are not the greatest. I think all of this could and should've been accounted for in the original Project Plan. IMO, this is more of bad Project Management than constraints. I have to say that the examples given as “unexpected” and “unseen” constraints are not the greatest. I think all of this could and should’ve been accounted for in the original Project Plan. IMO, this is more of bad Project Management than constraints.

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