Check out this the Schedule Games series from Johanna Rothman at Managing Product Development (found this via Daily Grind 617):
- Schedule Chicken
- 90% Done
- Bring Me a Rock
- Hope is Our Most Important Strategy
- Queen of Denial
- Sweep Under the Rug
- Schedule Dream Time or Happy Date
- Pants on Fire
- Schedule == Commitment
- We’ll Know where we are when we get There
- The Schedule Tool is always Right
- Acknowledgements
Lots of great advice here. Luckily I have not yet had the misfortune to fall into any of the described situations too seriously…but it’s good to know what to look out for.