Maintain timelines and quality with these strategies: 1️⃣ Set Clear Boundaries: Define project scope and objectives upfront to minimize misunderstandings. 2️⃣ Prioritize Requests: Evaluate additional requests and determine their impact on timelines and quality. 3️⃣ Communicate with Stakeholders: Keep everyone informed about potential changes and their implications.

Having spent 30 years involved with IT projects and almost 10 as an expert witness for IT disputes, I can assure you that you are not alone. Typically, the IT project is just the fall guy for failures of a wider business transformation. Project managers discuss managing the triangle of scope, budget and quality. Some also add risk to create a quadrilateral. However, the polestar must be business benefit realisation and return on investment. Too often, the business case is locked down during the inception phase. As a project proceeds, new information about costs, business needs, priorities and opportunities should be fed into the evolving business case. This should drive an evolution of scope, risk, pace, and test go/no-go points.

Change Control Process: Establish a formal change control system to evaluate any requested changes against the project’s original scope and assess their impact on timelines and resources.

Stick to a specified schedule and ensure you have documented everything (requirements) from the beginning. Don't risk your credit, energy, and resources by putting your team into something that "might" have advantages. Håll dig till ett specificerat schema och se till att du har dokumenterat allt (krav) från början. Riskera inte din kredit, energi och resurser genom att lägga ditt team på något som "kan" ha fördelar. Halten Sie sich an einen vorgegebenen Zeitplan und stellen Sie sicher, dass Sie von Anfang an alles (Anforderungen) dokumentiert haben. Riskieren Sie nicht Ihren Kredit, Ihre Energie und Ihre Ressourcen, indem Sie Ihr Team in etwas investieren, das „könnte“ Vorteile haben.