Scope Projects In 10 Steps

摘要

Think globally, act locally. Strategic options and their implications are not visible unless you take a global view. However, since trying to change everything at once results in chaos, change must be executed through small, bite-sized projects. The same goes for process improvement and process design of a more tactical nature. Unfortunately, a series of beneficial local actions may result in a loss of global coherence, unless care is taken to ensure coherence by regularly looking at the big picture. To get the correct project scope, you need a good cookie cutter. Too big a scope generates much frustration, and energy is wasted beating around the bush. The greatest risk is you never reach the level of detail required to identify and fix the vital variables. By contrast, the greatest risk of too small a scope is you leave these variables out entirely and waste time beating the wrong bush.