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This document is the seventh and last in a series about the Seven Deadly Project Sins
I have been focusing on some of the “soft-elements” of the project, some temptations that the project manager needs to be on the lookout for in order to foster success on the project.
The Seven Deadly Project Sins as I have defined them are:
Best Practice Sloth
The seventh Deadly Project Sin – Best Practice Sloth can increase risk on the project beyond all of our expectations.
From the Wiktionary at www.wikipedia.org:
Sloth is defined as:
1. (uncountable) Laziness; slow in the mindset. One of the seven deadly sins.
2. (countable) A herbivorous, arboreal South American mammal of the families Megalonychidae and Bradypodidae, noted for its slowness and inactivity.
To oversimplify the definition, sloth is a laziness that occurs.
So what is “best practice sloth”?
Project Managers sometimes get lazy and don’t follow best practices for project management. I list this as one the “Seven Deadly Project Sins”. PMI lists “Project Management Risk” as one of the four main risk categories in the PMBOK Guide.
Read on at PM World Today.
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