A Vision of The Future - The Problem - Over-Planning
The flaw with over-planning or over-preparing and making the project all-inclusive is that they try to move to change many things in the business at the same time, extending the planning lead time and during execution creating commercial damage due to dependencies within the project stalling business as usual activities.
- Often, project managers find they spend a large amount of time planning and preparing to implement productivity changes.
- Significant time and resources are spent preparing and planning for things that later prove to be a mirage. These are things that they think or feel they should do before they start, but don’t actually need to do. This may include preparing for events or effects they worry may occur, or engaging staff in a lot of additional training.
- The productivity improvement project seems 'too big' and 'too hard' which causes the project to lose traction or inertia. With the increasing days driving up costs and the commercial damage.
