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Practical Project Management
3. Take the time to plan and to set goals. Thousands of projects fail each year because their managers didn’t do the preliminary steps in the right order, especially defining and planning. Make sure you know what the goal of the project is; make sure you understand the work; make sure you have a plan. Then start the work. You wouldn’t go to target practice and shout, “Ready! Fire! Aim!” Don’t take that attitude with your projects. 4. Use the Godzilla principle. Brainstorm to find potential problems—and act on them now. Use the Monitor stage to scout continually for embryonic disasters. Design early warning systems and event triggers to help you plan. To solve any problem more easily, catch it early.
