· machCon · Project Management · 1 min read
What is a Watermelon Project?
A watermelon project looks green on the outside but is red inside. How misleading status reports hide real project problems and what to do about it.
Transitioning to Agile means using different measurements. Using status reporting such as traffic lights can be very misleading. Sometimes a project is 90% done but then the team tries to integrate the pieces into a product and finds that the requirements need to be changed, or it doesn’t integrate in the product as they though it would. It can happen that a project status light is green up to 1 month before the release date. This can be referred to as a watermelon project (green on the outside, red on the inside).
