4. Identify your trade-offs
Unexpected surprises will crop up and threaten to throw your whole project out of scope and off schedule. In those moments, you’ll be glad that you identified your trade-offs early on. Your trade-offs allow you to see where you have the most wiggle room available in a project, should you need to make last-minute adjustments.
Timing, scope, and budget are the most common vectors to play with here, and these should be prioritized during your kickoff. Rather than work expanding to fit allotted time, you might actually need to reduce the work or other expectations to fit the time window.
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