Driving clarity from requirements to planned work
In Chapter 5, we discussed the importance of driving clarity in all aspects of a project or program. Out of all of the areas where driving clarity is needed, plan management is the most important.
When writing a project plan, we might find ourselves asking why we are doing it. “Why are we doing this?” I ask myself every time I’m writing one, even though it is one of the aspects of project management I enjoy the most. The answer to why we do it is simple: it enables us to be a force multiplier. We know the work that needs to be done and so does everyone else. The team spends less time on determining what and when and instead focuses on how to achieve the tasks and goals. Driving clarity in requirements early on takes less time than correcting the issue later in execution as this can lead to bad estimations due to poor understanding, which results in longer timelines.
The first step in driving clarity in...
