Project Scope and Success

Sat, 17 Jul 2010 09:40:52 +0000

In many projects, in order to provide a reasonable probability of success, it will be necessary to reduce the scope by as much as a factor of two.

I’ve learned this the hard way. Every project starts with an ambitious list of features and an optimistic timeline. Reality intervenes quickly – resources are tighter than expected, technical problems emerge, and deadlines don’t move.

Cutting scope feels like failure. It’s the difference between shipping something that works and shipping nothing at all.

Scope on Shafiq Alibhai

Project Scope and Success