[ Before ]

People involved in executing large, complex projects know that feeling in the middle of it.  It’s a feeling of constant overwhelm, while we’re facing impossible deadlines, cost overruns, inevitable cost cuts, questionable quality, and uncertain outcomes.  There’s a point when we wonder if it will ever be finished.

But in the end, most projects do finish.  After a while, most of the stress and drama that went before is forgotten.  So perhaps the value of dwelling on it now is diminished, thinking ahead to when the job is done.  Today will be in the ‘before’, and won’t matter so much.