Project Anatomy

Most delivery dates fail before they’re spoken. They fail because someone treats a date as an input to planning, when it should be the output of one. The six-question test to tell the difference.

Most projects don’t fail on execution. They fail because there was never a strategy to execute - just a wish wearing strategy’s clothes. Outcome = Strategy × Tactics, and zero times anything is zero.

Five ownership gaps that silently kill projects - and the questions to ask before writing a single line of code.