From the course: The Top 10 Project Management Mistakes—and How to Avoid Them

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Tip 9: Rescheduling too late

Tip 9: Rescheduling too late

From the course: The Top 10 Project Management Mistakes—and How to Avoid Them

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Tip 9: Rescheduling too late

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- Mistake number nine that people make with projects is rescheduling too late. This is where suddenly right at the very end of the project they give you a big chunk of bad news, and customers don't like bad news. I remember with Wembley Stadium, the British national football stadium, they were redoing it, this was probably 10 years ago now, and with one week to go, they suddenly announced they were a whole year behind schedule. And that was crazy, because people had already booked in things like the FA Cup Final, and I think Take That were playing a concert, and all these things have been booked in for a few weeks after that. And they went, "Oh, we're not going to be ready "for another year." Now they must have known about that, they can't of suddenly had a problem that delayed them by a year. So, why didn't they reschedule sooner? And why do people generally reschedule too late? And the answer is they're hoping for luck. They're hoping that some miracle's going to happen. So, what…

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