Into every life some rain must fall, and I seem to be stuck in a monsoon. I guess the silver lining is that this will make a good "war story" in the future when we're arguing about whose project was worse. I inherited this with the merger of our divisional operations into corporate IT. Fortunately, getting the project in Entire is letting me make lemonade out of the lemons I've been handed.

The divisional people weren't using Entire and seemed to be running the project on a day-to-day basis, with little planning and no tracking. The first thing I had them do was build up the project's knowledge base in Entire from whatever information was available. Of course, there were holes in this, but Entire enabled us to immediately identify and act on them. As soon as this was assembled, everyone involved with the project was shown Entire and informed that all project information would now be stored, tracked and available for everyone's review in Entire.

It took some time and diplomacy, but we've managed to get management acceptance of the outstanding tasks and issues, and, most importantly, who is responsible for them. For the past month the project has been meeting the revised expectations and the "noise" level has reduced dramatically. Entire will save this project for our company and make me look like a hero.