Another week goes by with me in Taiwan and I ponder the following thought as I sit here looking out at the Taipei 101 building: do project schedules ever work out?
It seems to be that whenever I leave the office for any period of time, one of my products has a schedule slip or it gets put on hiatus. I’m not sure how much this has to do with me leaving, but it certainly seems more visible from the road. Because I’m away I feel like it is out of my control, or the decision was made because I wasn’t there to stop it.
As I look back on more than 10 years of schedule setting and execution, I find that almost none of the dates ever put down on paper were met. It makes you wonder: why bother forecasting a date for anything if it always turns out to be wrong?