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Coping with "Impossible" Project Demands

Posted May 26, 1998 | Leadership | Amplify | Amplify | Amplify | Amplify

It's a familiar scenario: you've just been assigned to manage a mission-critical IT project, and you've been told that you've got a schedule of six months, a staff of five people, and a budget of $250,000. But with a little investigation and estimating work, you've concluded that at the very least, it will take 12 months, 10 people, and $1 million. You try to negotiate a more reasonable set of project parameters, but you're told that the deadline is fixed, that no additional people can be hired, and that money is tight.

About The Author
Ed Yourdon
Ed Yourdon was cofounder, with Karen Coburn, of Cutter Consortium. Ed served as Fellow of the Cutter Business Technology Council, and Founding Editor and Editor Emeritus of the Cutter IT Journal. He chaired Cutter's Summit for many years. Mr. Yourdon is widely known as the lead developer of the structured analysis/design methods of the 1970s. He was a codeveloper of the Yourdon/Whitehead method of object-oriented (OO) analysis/design and the… Read More
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