Project management dilemma

Therefore, one of the project manager s ongoing problems is to resolve the tension between issuing drafts that are so preliminary as to cause more harm than good, and issuing them so late that people are not fully involved in the project. There is no simple answer to this dilemma, but the project manager does need to be sensitive to it. 

Packendorff, X, 2002. The temporary society and its enemies. Projects from an individual perspective. In Sahlin-Andersson, K. and Soderhohns, A., editors. Beyond project management New perspectives on the temporary—permanent dilemma. Mahno Liber ekonomi, p. 318. 

The Implementation phase is treated in the ensuing chapters from the perspective of each of the levels at which a manager operates organization, group and self. At each of these levels there is a central dilemma that managers and project leaders continually need to resolve ... 

For an individual engineer working on a single project, the ethical dilemmas may be more subtle. Certainly the individual should implement the kind of methodical operation procedures described here and immediately call to management attention any deficiencies in the project that compromise safety or function. However, one year of deferred maintenance may not by itself significantly compromise project integrity. In this and similar situations, discernment must be carefully exercised to avoid being either overly alarmist or apathetic. To fully meet Canon 1, the profession must keep these issues visible to the public and proper officials. 

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