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Watch Out for Self-Fulfilling Prophecies

by Dwayne Phillips

Self-fulfilling prophecies happen all too frequently in IT projects. The process goes like this: Someone involved with the project doesn't agree that one of the steps being asked for is necessary, the project manager coerces them into agreement, the step never happens, and the project fails.

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Watch Out for Self-Fulfilling Prophecies 23 December 1998

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