The 7 P's - Project Planning Rant inside

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Just need to get this off my chest before I take it out on someone in the office.

Why on God's green earth do people create a plan with ZERO contingency built in to it and based upon the assumption that everyone will be able to attend workshops? Bearing in mind that everyone includes not only internal staff but three external stakeholders who were given 3 days notice to attend said workshops.

And on top of all this the bloke who put this plan together has now gone on holiday for three weeks and I have to sort his mess out.

On top of all of that is the statement that not one day slippage is allowed.

Oh and the icing on the cake is that no one internally has signed up to the plan and they have been given stupidly tight timescales.
 
There is only three levels of management above me - head of service, operations director, and CEO.

And my boss is currently off. Just insane.
 
Well the last thing you want is to get the blame should this inept initial plan go wrong, it is possible that this bloke who is off on holiday may come back and say there was nothing wrong with his plan but it was poorly executed. A gentle email up the chain of command to highlight your concerns would be the route I would take, dont be overly critical and state some solutions to the problems that you see in the plan.
 
Bar said:
There is only three levels of management above me - head of service, operations director, and CEO.

And my boss is currently off. Just insane.

well if your head of service is off, then just go straight to the ops director. and if he/she's off then go to the CEO.


O/T p.s. hey check my e-penis i am 1337! :D
 
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