The first thing an aspiring project manager needs to remember is that those 2 words will save you. Your role is to deliver a specific outcome, on time, on budget, but you’re getting an uneasy feeling that all 3 of those things might be slipping. But no-one else knows. It’ll probably sort itself out right? After all, it’s early days yet!
The problem is that it won’t sort itself out. Even worse, the discomfort of submitting a small variation now is going to seem like paradise when you’re facing a blow-out later. And that will happen as surely as day follows night. As time marches away from project start-up, inexorably towards the finish date, your ability to negotiate time, cost and quality diminishes in inverse proportion.
Disclose early. Admit it: there’s too much month at the end of the money. At least when you disclose early you get a shot at fixing things. And maybe your customer will trust you a little more.
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