S3 Episode 3|034 On Scope, On Schedule, Off Purpose: Why Following the Plan Is Not the Same as Realizing the Purpose, with Tina Berger

The Human Factor: Exploring the Intersection of Humanity, Technology, and Transformation · Sep 24, 2026 · 1h 11m

S3 Episode 3|034 On Scope, On Schedule, Off Purpose: Why Following the Plan Is Not the Same as Realizing the Purpose, with Tina Berger

Here is a project every one of you has been near at some point. It finished on scope. It finished on schedule. It came in on budget, or close enough that nobody had to write a memo. The steering committee signed off. Somebody ordered a cake. And eighteen months later, the value that justified the whole thing had not shown up, and no one could quite say why. It was not the technology, and it was not the people resisting it. Somewhere along the way the…