Steve McConnell shares the most important lesson about project management: Changing course and exploring your options are far cheaper at the start than they are at the end. While this is obvious, we almost always do it backward. It’s only toward the end that the boss takes a look, that the community review board gets involved, that we share our idea with the salesforce—because it’s at the end that things begin to feel real and imminent, and busy and important and distracted people have trouble paying attention when they have competing emergencies.
