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how to deal with people who screw projects?
jason7 | Jul 18 2007
hi: For example, you are in a project, developing it nicely, working many hours on it, knowing its structure, pros, cons etc. One day you have a meeting with some coworkers/boss and they make a suggestion that you feel would completely ruin the project. You know it because you have problably spent more time on it than them or because you have more experience, a different/better understanding of the project. How to deal with people in this type of situations? It sometimes happens that they could start agreeing and tell you, you are the one who doesnt see it, we are majority so they vote and the project gets screwed. A few months later the project gets into development hell, deadlines are not meet, all because of this simple mistake you pointed out. But nobody will listen if you tell them, i said this was going to happen. Any similar experiences? Any tips on how to save projects in this type of situation? 5 Comments
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 Re: how to deal with people who screw projects?Submitted by Rivercat0338 on October 10, 2007 - 3:45pm.
@jason7, sorry to hear you've had to deal with that. I used to work for a company in which incorporating any bad ideas that came from a certain department was mandatory. That company no longer exists, for obvious reasons. At the time, the only way to handle the problem was as yucca suggests above: document, document, document (aka CYA). If we were lucky, someone in authority would review the milestones and catch the imminent disaster before it happened, or we were able to devise a way to prove the idea was a bad one (using focus groups in one case). @noodle, you had it right: what Covey is talking about is called active listening. » POSTED IN:
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