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Wednesday, May 14, 2003
Before the Plan, The Cheeseburger -- Dale Emery points to a PMI San Diego Newsletter (pdf) that contains a good one-page piece by Payson Hall on the value of a Cheeseburger lunch between a project manager and the sponsor/customer of a project. It features a list of 20 questions that can serve as the core of the pre-planning plan -- the initiation of the project and the relationship between th PM and the customer. Dale adds one word to the last question that, in my opinion, brings significantly more value to it. [Later - Actually, he points out that Hall uses that word in his presentations on the subject.] A quickie look at a presentation version on the same subject can be found in this Google cache page.
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