Project Management Has A Status Problem
CIO, Tuesday, March 10th, 2026
Chances are, keeping on Green isn't what you think it means.
It was, by definition, a well-run meeting: The team got through its agenda in its allotted time, after which everyone received and filed the meeting notes.
Sadly, it demonstrated the difference between well-run and well-conceived: It was supposed to be a project status meeting, but that wasn't how it turned out.
Instead, team members spent an hour listening to the outsourcer's project manager report his view of the project's status to the assembled virtual project team.
The problem? The temptation for an outside consultant engaged as a project manager to control the message is huge, especially when a project is straying out of Green status into more rickety territory.