A Mão Escondida: E Se Subestimar o Projeto For uma Coisa Boa?
Neste episódio, Ricardo explora o Princípio da Mão Oculta, proposto por Albert Hirschman, segundo o qual muitas vezes subestimamos tanto as dificuldades de um projeto quanto nossa capacidade de encontrar soluções criativas quando os problemas surgem.
Neste episódio, Ricardo explora o Princípio da Mão Oculta, proposto por Albert Hirschman, segundo o qual muitas vezes subestimamos tanto as dificuldades de um projeto quanto nossa capacidade de encontrar soluções criativas quando os problemas surgem.
Em contexto
- Tema: Proyectos, PMO y Riesgos — Gestión de proyectos, oficinas de proyecto y riesgo del portafolio.
- Fonte: Ricardo Vargas
- Publicado: 18/10/2026
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Why it matters
In project management, nearly everything discussed as a technical problem is really a problem of expectations badly negotiated at the start. Scope, time and cost were agreed at a moment when nobody had enough information, and afterwards nobody wanted to reopen the conversation.
My filter is the quality of the status report. If every project is green, the reporting system is not working: in any real portfolio some initiatives are in trouble, and a healthy organisation surfaces them in time rather than discovering them at the closure committee.
What usually goes wrong
Where it usually breaks is the handover to operations. The project is declared finished when it is delivered, not when the receiving area can sustain it. Three months later the team has dissolved, nobody documented anything, and operations lives with something it does not understand and cannot change.
What to watch
- Who the sponsor is and how often they actually show up — not on the org chart, in the calendar.
- Whether the status report shows any red projects: an all-green portfolio is a portfolio without information.
- Which risks are identified, who owns each one, and when they were last reviewed.
How I read this entry
The way I would bring this down to earth is by shrinking the size of the deliveries. An eighteen-month project with nothing visible before month twelve is a bet, not a plan. I would rather have six deliveries that stand on their own, even if the total takes a little longer, because each one corrects the course.
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