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Watch Out for Self-Fulfilling Prophecies

Posted December 22, 1998 | Leadership | Amplify | Amplify | Amplify | Amplify

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.

About The Author
Dwayne Phillips
Dwayne Phillips has been a computer and systems engineer with the US government since 1980. He coauthored It Sounded Good When We Started, Working with People on Projects with Roy O'Bryan and wrote The Software Project Manager's Handbook, Principles That Work at Work , now in its second edition. Dwayne Phillips can be reached at d.phillips at computer.org. His Web site ishttp://dwaynephillips.net.
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