Gold Plating is always bad

Jatinder — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 16:26:02 +0000

Gold Plating is always bad. Always. No exceptions. Period. It is self induced scope creep. If you feel that customer has missed a feature on the requirements document and can benefit from it. You must try to negotiate that feature and try to put in the scope document. You should estimate cost for the feature, and assign appropriate resources. It is your responsibility as a Project Manager to keep scope under control, under all circumstances. By gold plating you are not delighting customer, but you are looking for trouble.

Accept you are suffering from information overload

Jatinder — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:15:18 +0000

I remember my school days when it was hard to get information on a subject. Information was expensive and information was king. Then came the internet era and Information overload came into our lives. Now, my regular workday starts with checking emails on three separate accounts, checking Facebook and LinkedIn.

In theory, it sounds great to have any information available to me just by clicking and typing few words in my browser. This information was never available to a small business owner before. But what is the point of all this information? Everyone else have access to the same information as well. So where is the competitive advantage? What can we do about it?

First step in solving any problem is accepting that you have a problem.
I know that I am spending a lot of time on unnecessary things and tasks in my daily life. I don’t know the solution yet, but at least I have admitted it is a serious problem for my business and for my daily life. I am opening it for discussion and potential solutions to information overload.

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Gold Plating is always bad

Accept you are suffering from information overload