Plan & Plot
Business executives and professionals are usually biased about what they are doing. In terms of righteousness and timing they become very subjective and short-minded. For them, everything what they are doing is right and appropriate and they do not have any ability to compare against market / industry realities.
Project durations become “best-guess” estimations, usually overran, project risks become “areas of comfort”, usually painful and expensive, if they materialize, organizational considerations become “political dances”, usually fellowships and similar abnormalities.
Additionally it is a competence to see the world in “tasks-n-activities” and being able to “plot it on the time table” in an abstract way. This activity is usually called work breakdown structure exercise and is essential to manage project and large scale initiatives. The larger and more complex the initiative gets, the more important details became, due to interdependence, preconditions, and sequenced orders to be comply to and so forth.
Only an outside and independent view can help to talk about the realities. Structure and document them,