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Project managers have a favorite figure: the triangle. It’s not simple. It consists of three constraints that define the quality of a project: scope, budget, and schedule. The ideal PM knows that these are not just project control areas. It’s a balancing act of project management. The simple analogy is “fast, cheap, quality.” Every variable affects every other variable. And it’s not a math problem. The client is spending real money, and the real reputation of the company and the team is at stake. The ideal PM understands the consequences of unbalancing the triangle, so from the very beginning of the project works with the client’s expectations and chooses an approach of working with balance. People have invented other shapes – project squares, hexagons, etc. But they are more like project control tricks, and working with balance is not the main thing. For example, there is a heptagon: plan, cost, scope or scope, quality, customer satisfaction, risk and resources. Who likes what you like. At least a circle, if it works well.