IDG Contributor Network: What changing a tire taught me about project management

I thought I was a fairly organized person. Thought. And then I started to change a tire on our large 12-passenger van. The best part of it was the help I received from my project team – my 5-year-old son Ryan and my two 7-year-olds, Jack and Leah. The worst part? Everything else.I hate rework above just about anything else and I've managed projects long enough and I've been an application developer long enough to know that rework usually results from poor or incomplete planning or poo