One of her chief responsibilities is to manage the contract schedule in MS Project. Originally it was all her responsibility, then I had some responsibilities for approval, but two weeks ago we want back to the original pattern, and she quickly consolidate the approval responsibilities. In addition she started "cleaning" the schedule. I know she was clearly warned that she needed to be careful when she was deleting items from the schedule not to break dependencies because that would change dates for remaining tasks. I know it because we share an office, and I heard the MS Project expert tell her.
Today I received a phone call from another senior member on the project, many of his dates are past due (tasks that weren't even on the radar last week) and other items that were 100% complete are now at 0%. Fortunately, we had a copy of the previous schedule. Low and behold, multiple line items with dependency relationships were deleted, breaking the remaining items.
So the question is, why don't I feel more excited. I am not entirely sure, but I suspect it is one of the following reasons, or maybe a bit of all of them:
- One more example of incompetence will be ignored
- Staff other than the culprit will be tasked with fixing the problem
- Staff other than the culprit will get blamed for the problem (possibly even not making the consequences clear?)
- Nothing will change as a result of the screw up - no consequences for the culprit
- The project suffered a setback and it will take time to recover - work time we don't have...
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