It never fails to astonish me how willing clients and vendors alike are willing to turn a blind eye to the elephants in the room, thundering about, crying for attention, as they calmly focus on why their project will work.

Instead of calling these elephants out and talking about them, everyone sips their drink and keeps chatting about how great this will all be once its implemented. Take this project or example, didn’t anyone know the state of current technology, or was that a secret? Given the millions of dollars spent, didn’t anyone look at the gotchas?

Why is it so rare, and apparently difficult to be honest with each other? Maybe it’s because this behavior has been labeled as negative or not being on the bus or whatever. I would suggest it’s just the opposite. The one looking for potholes is the one who is planning to steer around them. Anyone who ignores them, doesn’t really plan to make it through, they are just along for the ride.