How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.
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How does a project get to be a year late? One day at a time.
You have to find your projects and track them as they go along that long process of being made.
What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the time available? What is the best strategy for application of time to projects for the most effective results?
The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years.
Every time you work on a project, it's a little vacation from the project you're working on the other 23 hours. That's the thing - it replenishes you to do something else.
As you schedule individual tasks, give yourself a cushion. Mark the due date a few days ahead of the actual deadline so you have time to deal with changes or last-minute emergencies.
Often I feel that projects overwhelm us when we look at how many hours are involved until completion. But just getting started is usually not that difficult.
I try to keep the number of projects I'm involved in down to one per year.
When you're the lead actor in a drama, you have 2 1/2 months at the end of a season to do other projects, and everything has to get done in that time.
It's like this: The time between having an idea and its public launch is measured in days not months, weeks not years.