Robot REALLY wants to focus on the stool for this piece.

The Magical Number 3

Scope is where projects in education go to die

David Knuffke
5 min readApr 1, 2024

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A few weeks ago, I was introduced to the three-legged stool of project management. Given my life in NGSS-aligned science instruction, I love a good three-legged stool analogy, so I was primed to pick this one up. The project management stool has legs of cost, schedule, and scope. As per stool logic, to have a successful project, these three legs need…

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David Knuffke

Writing about whatever I want to, whenever I want to do it. Mostly teaching, schools and culture.