Project Management as a treeswing
22 Nov 2012
Talking to a customer t’other day and I mentioned the (infamous) tree swing cartoon. He had no idea what I was talking about.
So, in the interest of education and enlightenment, I went looking for a copy of the tree-swing cartoon, and whoooo, I had no idea that there were so many different versions or that it had been adapted for so many different professions. But that makes sense; the general underlying principle is that projects will go wrong and customers will not get what they wanted.
Businessballs.com has a great history of the cartoon dating back to the 1970’s
The version I remember seeing in my Dad’s workplace back in the 1970’s looked like this:
and this is the one which seems to top of the list right now:
