From the course: Leading Projects
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Investigate the options
- Investigating your options is one of the six pillars of project leadership. Let's look at why it is so important, and talk about some specific tools that can be extremely helpful. Have you ever bought something on an impulse, only to feel the buyer's remorse of knowing that you could've gotten the same thing or something even better for less money? If you'd only done a bit more research. Well, the same thing happens with projects all the time. People get focused on a particular solution and start investing time and money to make it happen without really taking the time to consider alternatives that might actually have been better, faster, and cheaper. Part of a project leader's job is to prevent groupthink, where everyone on the team is marching forward without challenging assumptions and thinking about alternatives. There are a number of tools that can help with investigating options. For example, a SWOT analysis…
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