Heard a PM drop a comment about revision cloud sizes that gave me pause

I was sitting in on a coordination meeting last Wednesday and one of the project managers just casually said, 'oh we always shrink our revision clouds by 30% so the owner doesn't notice how many changes we had.' I didn't say anything then but it stuck with me. That's a bad habit if true right? Like aren't revision clouds supposed to be accurate? Has anyone else run into this kind of thing on their jobs?

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grant.jason25d ago

Classic PM move. Hide the screwups instead of fixing the process. Bet the owner would love to know they're paying for 30% less cloud than the contract says.

calebm4625d ago

Wait, they're actually billing for 100% but only delivering 70%? That's not a screwup, that's basically fraud.