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One of his primary jobs was to challenge the team to sign up and commit to aggressive schedule and scope targets that would meet the customer needs. His behavior was very much aligned with a contract negotiation stance. Get them (the team and me) to commit to a goal (the contract) then come back at the end for the prize (delivery). The middle game was simply wrapped around the details and not of much interest to him.

Very nice observation in this little gem about Transparency…