The person who invented the timeline is never the person who has to explain the delay.
Your CxO rubbed the crystal ball. You inherited the number. A Decision Mandate failure. As long as commitment authority lives above the people doing the work, and accountability for the miss sits below, there will be big problems.
Improve your estimation all you like. It won't fix who gets to decide and who gets to apologize.
You would think this should all be common sense by now?
Great list, Maarten.
Would this be law 3 reformulated?
The person who invented the timeline is never the person who has to explain the delay.
Your CxO rubbed the crystal ball. You inherited the number. A Decision Mandate failure. As long as commitment authority lives above the people doing the work, and accountability for the miss sits below, there will be big problems.
Improve your estimation all you like. It won't fix who gets to decide and who gets to apologize.