Estimating

February 22, 2010

The estimating process for project cost and schedule is usually one of the poorest skills for the project. Not because it is difficult or even because it is not well understood. But because there is a myth that estimating is not really possible. Estimating... Read more...

Project Management Principles Need To Have Units of Measure

February 19, 2010

PM Hut has a list of Project Management Principles. Good stuff, but no units of measure. How would we know we're being successful with these principles? No units of measure means the principles are hollow. OK, maybe number 2 has evidence that it is being... Read more...

Is This Really How PM 1.0 Works?

February 18, 2010

Once again Andrew Filev - through Elizabeth Harrin - has a description of PM 1.0 straight out of the 1980's. This little story of how projects are chartered and then managed is reminisent of how projects were chartered and managed before personal computing.It... Read more...

Couples Story

February 17, 2010

A needed diversion for a cute story †...When our lawn mower broke and wouldn't run, my wife kept hinting to me that I should get it fixed. But, somehow I always had something else to take care of first, the truck, the car, playing golf. Always something... Read more...

Who’s doing what on this project?

February 16, 2010

On an agile forum there is a discussion about roles, Business Analyst, and other type roles and what these people do on software development projects. This of course is backwards, like many discussions that fail to return to "first principles."... Read more...

The F.I.S.T. Principles

February 12, 2010

Dan Ward is one of my new favorite Blogs. Dan is a frequent author in the Defense Journal AT&L. His F.I.S.T. is Fast, Inexpensive, Simple, and Tiny. I've restated them here for effect: A project leader’s influence is inversely proportional... Read more...

What is a Project Plan?

February 11, 2010

I'm working two programs in parallel - a really bad idea by the way. One is a DOE R&D project. The other is a DoD integrated battle management system.Working in these domains produces a bias towards what is means when someone says "project management."... Read more...

PM 2.0 Communications Channel Bandwidth Requirements

February 10, 2010

What happened to the agile manifesto's first statement? We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value: 1. Individuals and interactions over processes and tools. Are... Read more...

The WBS and Estimating

February 9, 2010

Craig Brown and Mike Clayton have a related posts on the Work Breakdown Structure and estimating. Building a credible cost or schedule estimate is a "process" focused effort. Let's start with the guidance documents we use: The GAO Cost Estimating... Read more...

Credible Estimates

February 7, 2010

John Goodpasture has a post on estimates from Fred Brooks. Fred's quote, which I'll repeat for effect, from John's site is It is very difficult to make a vigorous, plausible, and job-risking defense of an estimate that is derived by no quantitative method,... Read more...

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