You want the Moon on a Stick.

Or: Project Management the Wrong Way

Having spent the last 6 months working in Project Management after being thrown in the deep end, the best advice I can give is make sure your requirements are signed off before you start.

It all started so simply. I was taken on as a technical specialist on a project and given a simple brief with a clearly understood, seemingly straightforward requirement. When I took over management of the project very soon after I discovered that there was no supporting documentation and even though everyone knew what the requirement was, it had never been written down anywhere.

In reality, this project should probably never have been given funding. As it was, despite the fact that I had initially been asked to undertake the product evaluation phase of the project, I had to abandon that and go back to square one, creating the supporting documentation that should have been prepared in order for the project to be given the green light in the first place.

And that’s where the trouble started…
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