5.      Resources were lost when a team member switched to another new, "more exciting" project halfway through his current project. Test equipment also moved with him and not replaced in the current project.

• This action essentially removed very valuable manufacturing engineering experience, which resulted in a less efficient manufacturing process and increased the product cost (COM) and project schedule.
• This also lead to inefficient testing and an increase in the development schedule and COM. It happened that the resulting increase in project costs more than ate up the cost of buying test equipment, if it were purchased new!

6.      Project managers (Team Members) were swapped in mid-project; the former manager's project knowledge, because of her Tenure on the project, was lost:

• Experience and 'project memory' of the management function was lost, creating a schedule slippage even though the new manager was just as experienced as the previous manager was. Getting up to speed by the new manager was difficult because of the project's complexity.

7.      A technology was selected later than usual in a project, and the responsible Team member did not have the Capabilities (knowledge or skills) to work with the technology:

• The team member needed training, which increased the schedule and project costs.
• A consultant was brought in to start the design so as to minimize the schedule slippage. This increased the project costs.

8.      A Company required the Product Costs of its product, currently in development, to be lower than originally planned because of corporate financial reasons - the company was to be acquired:

• Additional design was required to accommodate more automated testing (to decrease the product cost), thus increasing the schedule and project costs.
• Another contract manufacturer needed to be found where advantage of economy-of-scale would reduce parts costs. The schedule slipped and increased project costs.
• An alternate technology was also needed to preserve product characteristics at a lower cost. This increased the schedule and project costs

9.      A competitor beat the company to the market with new, international Product Characteristics. Marketing required that the same features be added to the product currently in development; this required additional development and more international Regulatory Agency certification.

• Another engineer, experienced in the technology to be added, was moved into the project. This and the added regulatory testing required a lot of new project funding.
• The added regulatory testing in various European countries dramatically increased the schedule.
• To maintain the COM and hold the line on project costs, some product features were dropped.

10.      Lightning struck the inter-building Ethernet lines, connected directly to (unprotected) PCs in each building: This Act of Encumbrance destroyed the attached computers which happened to be network gateway servers containing sensitive and archived data.

• Duplicate archive information was not stored in another area. The project schedule slipped, as it was required to restore and re-verify the lost data, which served as the configuration control for the products.
• Project costs increased since the computers required replacement. And since the two computers were used for remote design and project management communications, the project schedule slipped as communication quickly became less efficient.