Later Never Happens

Plans to address compromised quality standards to meet schedules can be a ticking time bomb.

The pressure to meet scheduled commitments can easily result in making compromises that are justified with the logic of deploying a plan to address the compromises later.  Unfortunately, the pressure to perform never seems to let up and allocating time and resources to address the compromises never seems to happen.  Sometimes, the compromises have no long-lasting impacts; other times they do.  Carefully think through the consequences if “later never happens.”