Microslop Project is a software tool with the mental powers greater than a jedi. This tool has the ability to convince a project manager everything will be alright. It makes people think things are under control when they are not. Worst of all it makes people think they have predicted the future. Microslop Project is the ultimate spin doctor playing on a project manager's perception filter. It tells you want you want to know. It feeds off ones confirmation bias. Those lovely lean blue lines making you think you've brought order to chaos. Finish to start planning only works if you are making stuff that has been made several zillion times. Finish to start is a constraint that wont deliver V1.new of anything that does not involve making stuff. Human beings working in the knowledge economy just dont do finish to start. Combined with using pockets of free time from business as usual resources and you've got yourself in a cat and mouse game with every other manager calling on the same resources. There are 4 dynamics that Microslop Project cannot help you with:
- Parkinsons Law. The work always fits the time available;
- Student syndrome. People always leave important boring stuff to the last minute;
- The halo effect. Time poor people gravitate towards what they enjoy doing;
- 'But'. Is it going to be finished? Yes but. Everything before the word but is never true.
Important complicated things are ready when they want to be ready. People are not 'decimers'. (re : Blakes 7). http://www.cultv.co.uk/blakes7.htm
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