Project Delivered to Plan (Baseline, Actual, Retrospective)
12 weeks · 4 milestones
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3 milestones
Choose 3 projects you have managed or significantly contributed to in the last 2 years — at least one that finished late or over budget, and at least one that finished on time. For each, reconstruct the original plan and what actually happened: original timeline vs actual timeline, original scope vs delivered scope, and original resource assumptions vs what was needed. For each gap, identify the specific planning failure that caused it (scope underestimation, dependency omission, resource overcommitment, risk not identified, buffer not built in, or other).
Proof required
Submit your 3 project post-mortems: for each project, a table with original plan vs actual outcome for timeline / scope / resources, and a paragraph naming the specific planning failure(s) that caused each significant gap. Append a 150-word cross-project pattern analysis naming your most consistent planning weakness.
What gets checked
- 3 real projects with concrete original plan data — a post-mortem based on 'I think we planned for 6 weeks' is not sufficient; there should be a real original estimate to compare against
- Planning failure named for each significant gap with a specific cause (not 'things changed' — what specifically was not planned for?)
- Cross-project pattern analysis names one recurring weakness across at least 2 of the 3 projects