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Most PMs miss this: the special case of deliberately planning for the chaos that surrounds the holiday season. In the United States, that season starts around mid-November and runs through the first half of January, but the concepts discussed here are really holiday-agnostic, so they should apply to whatever holiday season you have to deal with. The critical thing, regardless of the holiday, is to deliberately plan for its challenges.
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McBride, M. (2014). A Special Case: Planning for the Holiday Season. In: Managing Projects in the Real World. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6512-2_8
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