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Originally Posted by grumpy
That only comes with experience.
Work out how you would approach the following problem, and you will be a little closer to being able to muster logical and objective arguments.
A project manager has dedicated several months to developing a project management strategy, and he has staked his career on its worth. One of his cornerstone assumptions is derived from a throw-away line from a marketeer he has known and trusted for years that development of a certain product is routine for his company. You evaluate that development as requiring some poor engineer to successfully implement, within six months, a product that violates basic laws of physics. The project manager knows absolutely nothing about science and has a reputation for routinely dismissing technical arguments as irrelevant. Work out how you would inform the project manager that there may be some problems with his project management strategy. Illegal or immoral acts and rough language are not allowed.
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If he stubbornly ignores any attempts to explain that his critical path is falsely calculated due to a spurious assumption on the event dependencies relative to said Node of his PERT, I would certainly hope my career does not somehow hinge apon his success as a project manager. Another possibility depends on the existence of an "open-door" policy within company.
