In the United States we are in the American football season. America’s team, the Dallas Cowboys have a new stadium with a new high definition scoreboard that is 60 yards long, 24 yards high and has 30 million bulbs (it’s Texas huge). Unfortunately, in the first pre-season game the scoreboard became part of the game when a football hit it during a punt. In fact during the pre-game warm-ups it was clear the scoreboard is so low that when a punter kicks the ball there is a potential it will hit the scoreboard.

At a cost of $40 million dollars you would think that the scoreboard would have been installed so that punts would not hit it. The owner of the Dallas Cowboy’s Jerry Jones said “they did all kinds of analysis and the scoreboard meets the NFL’s specifications.”

Sometimes Analysis and Specifications are not enough

As a Project Manager the question you should have for Jerry Jones is that with all the expert analysis and specification review… “did you take a punter out onto the field and see if he could hit the scoreboard when he actually kicked the ball?”

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