Walking Backwards From a Missed Deadline

Walking Backwards From a Missed Deadline The date was 30 April. On 24 April, Ines told her director the migration would land on 12 May. Nobody was shocked. Two weeks isn't a scandal; the client accepted it, and everyone moved on. The retrospective produced three lines: we underestimated the data cleanup, the vendor was slow, and we need better planning next time. This retrospective is worth nothing, and the reason is that it starts at the end. Missed deadlines are almost never decided in the...