6.6 Getting Serious About Your Schedule

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Now that we have gotten a much better handle on the schedule, it is time to review it with team leads to ensure that everyone else agrees with the scheduling logic. These conversations may be difficult for a couple of reasons. Team leads may very well insist that their views of the schedule are better than your big picture, even though you are looking at all aspects of the project compared with their parochial views. You may be way ahead of them in terms of thinking this through. It is also possible that people push back because they do not understand what you are doing. Be patient. Understand that getting everyone on the same page is critical. If you are wrong or missed something, accept appropriate corrections with humility so long as you can be persuaded that you are in error. Again, it could be the critics that are mistaken, not you.

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