Project Planning
(Music: Dramatic and weighty—echoing Verdi’s grand tragedies, with a touch of Wagnerian gravity in the middle.)
Recitative
(In utter despair)
Alas—what woe, what bitter night!
The plan is blank, no scope in sight.
No chart, no line, no steady thread—
How can this work move on ahead?
How shall the whole design unfold,
Without a plan that’s brave and bold?
Aria
(Overflowing with pathos, a heroic longing for structure)
O Plan—my sacred, steadfast frame,
You keep our deadlines from the flame!
With milestones set and pathway clear,
So that no task may disappear.
(Lamenting toward the audience—swelling crescendo, all in legato)
Yet hours vanish, lists expand—
A change request: the nerves can’t stand!
Stakeholders call, the schedules shake,
And without a plan? A vast mistake!
Interlude
(A dramatic orchestral build, while the PMO tangles itself in endless Excel sheets.)
Finale
(A desperate—yet triumphant—vow to the art of planning.)
So set the plan! Hold fast—take heed!
Every work requires a guiding deed.
Or else it ends—ah, mercy, no—
The plunge to chaos: project’s woe!
(Final chord—held long, with a vast orchestral crescendo, as the project manager clings with last remaining strength to the Gantt chart.)
Curtain
(Applause—another curtain—and so on…)