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The One Tool You Need to Help Combat Project Thrash
Get in front of project delays with Dan Sullivan’s Impact Filter
The two biggest drivers to delay in projects are:
- Misaligned expectations on the project objective.
- Lack of shared understanding amongst team members.
These two drivers can show up anywhere that a project team needs to make a decision. They rear their head in planning, risk, dependencies, scope, estimates, etc.
What do these have to do with a project being on track?
Everything.
If a team is not on the same page, it opens the door to thrash. Decisions get made and then unmade. Work starts and then quickly stops. Thrash results in delays and frustration.
It’s not uncommon to experience this on the front end of any project. It becomes particularly prevalent when projects are high adventure. High adventure projects are those projects that many unknowns and high complexity.
The solution. Talk. Write things down and communicate a lot. Use a project charter to help you clarify the high-level expectations of a project.
Charters are helpful, but I have found that using Dan Sullivan’s Impact Filter to be particularly effective in helping teams get aligned. It helps…
