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Create the situation on your project where people will speak.
Project slippages happen on all types of projects. Johanna Rothman, writing for Projects @ Work, offers advice in her article You're Slipping. As usual, Johanna offers practical advice. While she is writing about software projects, projects of all types are more alike than they are not. There's plenty to learn from software and from Johanna. Have a look.
Here's my additional advice: create the situation on your project where people will speak. In most cases, someone on the project has at least had an inkling that something was not going right. Too often the environment is not right for raising the concern…for whatever reasons. When we create the situation for speaking and then we listen we will get the most advance notice that some action is required. In the end it results in less slippage.
Tags: LanguageActionPerspective, PMpractice, projectcontrol
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