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This week in pm-clinic: the “poof” of concept

This week in the pm-clinic discussion forum– preventing “poof” of concept:

For months I’ve been pushing my VP to fund a project to enable our websites to produce and use RSS feeds (including newsreader like customization) – I was turned down every time, until yesterday. He’s given me the green light and assigned my team to someone else, but I only have a month, of a single programmers time, to prove to him the value of my idea.

He’s given me no direction on what he expects to see in a month, or what I need to do to convince him and other VPs to finish the project. I’ve never managed a short term, high profile, proof of concept project before and I’m thinking now I should have just kept my mouth shut (yes, I’m scared).

Now that I’ve bought the ticket, how to make sure it’s a happy successful ride?

– Avoiding “Poof” of concept (POC)