Keep Your Target in your Sights
Good project managers know the importance of understanding requirements and clearly defining scope before beginning any other project activities. Having a good scope definition provides a clear target- and Project Warriors have a relentless focus on this target and they don’t let inevitable distractions keep them from achieving their goal.
If you keep your target in your sights at all times it’s much easier to make the tough decisions and keep scope creep under control. A good scope definition should be deliverables-driven and all planned project activities should focus on achieving the deliverables. This means that project scope and deliverables must be defined before any project activities are planned. It’s not easy to do, but this type of discipline is what seperates Project Warriors from average project managers.
Define your scope. Manage your scope. Stay focused.
