ManagementSpeak: The project has been re-scoped and de-scoped. This is a good thing from the point of view of eliminating Scope Creep, which had gotten way out of hand.
Translation #1: We didn’t know what we were doing, but now we’re going to try some other random things to see if any of them work out better.
Translation #2: Now that we said yes too many times, we’ll say no too many times.
This week’s anonymous IS Survivalist points out just a few of the myriad complexities of project management.

“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” — Albert Einstein; given to me by my good friend, colleague, mentor and rabbi (well, kind of), Shelly Harris