Is your Project Terminology an Olympic Challenge?

July 12, 2012 - PRLog -- Beach Volleyball - When things go wrong, the ball stops rolling and management bury their head in the sand

Boxing - The conflict that occurs between the various users when discussing and negotiating their different requirements against time and cost constraints

Cycling - Track - That fast track approach to your project life-cycle

Cycling - Mountain - That rocky road approach to your project life-cycle

Discus - What should happen in a project to ensure effective communication!

Diving - The feeling you get when the project is initiated and the water looks to be very deep

Fencing - The barrier that we build around us to prevent the customer from changing their requirements

Javelin - A project Stakeholder

Long Jump - What you wish you could do in order for your project to progress more quickly

Modern Pentathlon - Term used to describe what the lifecycle of a modern day project feels like to manage

Sailing - The one thing which rarely seems to happen in a project in a plain and simple way

Synchronised Swimming - The way the project’s resources should be swimmingly working together

Shooting - When the mistakes happen we perhaps feel like doing this to some individuals? Perhaps best not!

Table Tennis - New cockney rhyme for when the project goes ping pong (wrong)

Trampoline - For when the project team’s motivation quickly goes up but just as quickly comes back down again

Triple Jump - The big steps you attempt to take to move around from task to task to task

Water Polo - When you're trying to keep the ball rolling but quickly find yourself out of your depth

Wrestling - What the Project Manager often has to do to keep hold of their precious project resources

100 metre Hurdles - Those problems/issues which seem to get in the way but are cleared quickly

400 metre Hurdles - Those problems/issues which seem to get in the way and tend to take a little longer to be resolved

100 metre Sprint - The panic dash near the end of the project to try to meet the deadline

1500 metre run - a Milestone (ok albeit 106.344 meters short)!


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