Tuesday, September 9, 2008

The 'law' of diminishing impact?

Get the project objectives wrong and you might just as well pack up and go home. I mean just forget the whole project: it will be delivering the wrong change as the objectives define what measures have to change and by how much in order to be considered a success.

Get the size required for a comments attribute on a minor entity wrong and - even if someone notices and cares - it won't matter significantly in achieving project success.

In between these two polar extremes of project analysis deliverables lies a hierarchy of deliverables that (as you progress down the hierarchy) the impact of getting wrong diminishes (in most but not all cases: miss out the order no attribute on a sales ordering solution and you probably can't achieve project objectives!).

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