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Non-goals – David Lyness's Blog

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Ensuring that goals are set and commonly understood is one of a project manager’s main responsibilities. Developing consensus on the goals of a piece of work should be one of the first areas of focus, for how can efforts be judged as effective or efficient if there’s no shared understanding of the desired outcome? For any piece of work of non-negligible complexity (hereafter referred to as a “project”), it is also valuable to be explicit and exact about the non-goals of the project. A non-goal is an outcome for which there is no intention of focusing effort towards either achieving or preventing it as part of the project. Non-goals exist only within the scope of a specific project; there is no value judgement imposed on their objective value. Failure to achieve the non-goal does not represent a failure of the project, and achieving a non-goal does not make it more likely that the project has been successful. There could be specific outcomes that you would wish to avoid as part of a pro

Non-goals – David Lyness's Blog Skip to content 22 Jul 2022 Non-goals Ensuring that goals are set and commonly understood is one of a project manager’s main responsibilities. Developing consensus on the goals of a piece of work should be one of the first areas of focus, for how can efforts be judged as effective or efficient if there’s no shared understanding of the desired outcome? For any piece of work of non-negligible complexity (hereafter referred to as a “project”), it is also valuable to be explicit and exact about the non-goals of the project. A non-g

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