Are We There Yet? · Section 6

We’re All in This to Get There

The machinery of getting there together, opening with the wreckage: a basilica begun in 1882 and still unfinished, a 105-storey hotel empty for decades, an airport nine years late. What finishes anything is a century-old toolkit — Gantt's bars, Kanban's cards, the critical path, the Iron Triangle's pick two of fast, cheap and good — defeated by one law: work takes longer than you think, even when you allow for that.

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