SAP-Centric Projects

Complex projects (sometimes even simple ones) get complicated if there are no standards and no rules, therefore requiring that each situation be individually interpreted by the person encountering it. Scheduling for completing "WBS Phase 1" may be done differently than scheduling for "WBS Phase 2", and suppliers may define milestones to mean something different altogether. Coordination is then not done through systems (see Key 2 above) but needs to be achieved through people and a massive increase in communication. Overhead increases and so does the number of meetings and the coordination effort.