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[...] optimism may well be a leading contributor of project failure, as a factor of blindness to project risks. "We're not really late yet, we'll catch up". "It's just a trivial change, it shouldn't take five minutes". "I don't see why our customers wouldn't like that". We can all reel off dozens of these phrases which are usually the harbingers of project disasters.
I suspect it's optimism, not risk, that most needs to be managed.
Nicely put, although I might say that a key to managing risks starts with the management of optimism associated with promises.
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