Just yesterday I was talking with a CEO I work with regularly. He was hoping that a new project idea he'd been discussing would be 'completed by the end of the year'. I challenged this. Especially the word 'hope'. Even though it FEELS like we have a long time before December 31st... we don't actually have much productive 'delivery' time left. I discuss this story in the episode and I talk through some brief approaches for programme and project managers to be considering right now!