The Tuesday review
A programme slipped five weeks. The main cause was a supplier nobody could have predicted. Part of it is still yours. Forty minutes, and a director in the room.
Branching, and constrained: an early decision closes options later on. There is no undo inside a run. That is the point of running one rather than reading about it.
Tuesday, 14:00. The programme board has asked for a review of the five week slip on the health portfolio. Your director is in the room, along with the analyst who held the supplier relationship and two people from delivery. The supplier failure was genuine and unforeseeable. Between weeks two and five, nobody told the partner that anything was wrong, and the route for telling them ran through you.
The director opens with four words: what happened here?
How do you open?
