September 8, 2020
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Project: 7 red lines perpendicular to each other, some painted with green ink, others with transparent ink.This is how the famous video “The Expert” begins, which already has more than 25 million views on YouTube. Please watch it again, but this time with a critical eye. What mistakes does the expert make? When I watch this video, I always have to make an effort not to empathize too much with the expert, because I have experienced similar scenes, but when I look at it objectively, I think he is wrong. When the client says that “geometry must be ignored”, he shows that he does not know what he really wants. When planning the project, is it so rare to find clients who do not know what they want? The expert is wrong because he wants to discuss and clarify all the requirements at that moment, but it is clear that, in this meeting, setting the requirements is impossible. What is the alternative? Not doing the project? That is not the solution either. Let’s go back to the video. The only ones who seem to show good judgment, even if we don’t like them very much, are the sponsor and the project manager, when they say things like:
Project Management Institute Recommendation: “The project management professional must be able to manage predictive projects and adaptive projects.”Some clear signs in this regard: