I was speaking with a Sr. VP of my company the other day about a project. He mentioned that we spent a large number of hours discussing the project in relation to implementing it. The veep was joking but implying we had wasted time discussing the project.
After writing up an overview of the project I realized that it may have been one of my most successful yet. We had no rework to do and deployed it successful and on time. The customer was happy and we did not have any rework to do.
In college I learned an interesting statistic from a text on software development and project management. The statistic says, it cost’s between 80% – 100% more to fix a problem at the end of a project then it does at the beginning.
I guess we could have spent less time planning and more time just doing.
I wonder how much that would have cost us?
