A company can polish its commercial, product and distribution strategies and still leave its technology direction to the technical staff alone. An information systems strategy closes that gap, from the technologies the business competes with to the skills needed to run them.
An occasional pressure increase and overtime can be useful tactics to keep people focused and increase the perception that their work is important, but prolonged pressure is always a mistake. It has been shown that overtime is offset by fewer productive hours, or under-time.
It makes good sense for you as a project manager to take a defensive posture in most areas of risk. These are common risk mitigation techniques a project manager should use. There is one area, though, where defensiveness will always backfire: You cannot protect yourself against your own people’s incompetence. If your own people are not up to the job at hand, you will fail.
