Projects in the corporate world are way beyond comparison with the previously mentioned project scenarios. This time a project is part of your employment responsibilities. It is your bread and butter. It defines your career. It affects your future. It becomes synonymous to being who you are, profession-wise.
Before, when project schedule slides, it’s you and your grade that are affected. Now, two organizations are distressed: the buying organization and the selling organization. The buying organization is the one (financially) sponsoring the project and desires the resulting product whereas the selling organization is the one performing the work that builds the product. These organizations expects profit margin due their investments. They somehow keep track cost schedules and forecast profitability in the remaining days attributed to the project. Nevertheless, within these organizations are people who does the leg work, who skillfully builds the product components, who ensures that product meets (and exceeds) expectations, who are willing to spend long hours of hard labor to meet due dates and beat deadlines. These very people are in turn have families to support, at the very least financially. These very people are the building blocks to the project’s success, to achieve the project goals, to make the sponsor rich, and to give authorities pure satisfaction of job well done.
We saw projects in its simplest form to one situation and being so complex with another. The latter is what we have to think about. Handling large projects must not be that overwhelming. There must be a better way of doing it, a cohesive set of action items that facilitates harmonious dealings to all involved.
