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Source: Topic: a 25-minute working session for consulting project leads
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Slide 1
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Speaker notes
Open by naming the one problem this session solves. Keep the intro under a minute and preview the three habits so people know where it ends.
60-second talk track
Thanks for making time. This session is twenty-five minutes, and it's about one problem: projects that grow quietly in the first two weeks until the plan no longer fits the budget. Scope creep rarely arrives as a big request. It arrives as a series of small, reasonable ones that nobody wrote down. So today I want to give you three habits for your next kickoff. First, describe every deliverable as a thing you could hand over. Second, say out loud what you are not doing. Third, check the work against the list on day ten, before anything has drifted too far to fix. None of this needs new software or a new process document. It needs about an hour of prep before the kickoff and ten minutes a week after it.
The outline at a glance
The structure follows a talk you could give tomorrow: the problem, three habits, and a closing ask.
- 1Stop scope creep before week twoTitle0:52
- 2Where the extra work actually comes fromPoints0:53
- 3A topic can't be finished. An artifact can.Two columns0:53
- 4Write the not-doing list on day onePoints0:46
- 5Nobody remembers agreeing to the scope. Everyone remembers the deliverable list.Quote0:33
- 6Run a change request in ten minutesPoints0:45
- 7Four lines for when the ask landsTwo columns0:45
- 8Check the work against the list on day tenPoints0:37
- 9What this buys the teamPoints0:30
- 10Try it on your next kickoffClosing0:32
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