Tag: #ScheduleCompression
Project Schedule Management: When Impossible Deadlines Force Breakthrough Thinking
The email arrived on a Monday morning with the subject line that makes every project manager’s stomach drop: “Urgent: Timeline Revision Required.” The executive team had just learned that our primary competitor was launching a similar product six weeks earlier than expected. Our carefully planned 18-week development timeline now had to be compressed to 12…
Project Schedule Management: Mastering Time When Time Won’t Wait for You
The email arrived at 11:47 PM on a Wednesday: “We need to launch three weeks earlier than planned. Marketing just booked a $2M campaign around the new date. Make it happen.” Sound familiar? Chapter 1: The Time Paradox Here’s what every project manager learns the hard way: Time is the only project resource you can’t negotiate…
