Once Bitten, Twice Shy
"Mark, I expect you to perform at the level you committed to. There is no excuse for this, you are making our entire project team look bad. Your tasks were nowhere near the critical path before, but...
View ArticleStruggling with Cost Estimation? Check This Out.
Once upon a time, I was searching for some solid guidelines on cost estimation to improve the way my contract was doing it. I found a few great resources The post Struggling with Cost Estimation? Check...
View ArticleProject Estimation Methods
Project estimation can be a headache for new project managers. ?There are lots of opinions out there and not much that weighs various methods…rather you find people who feel strongly about one way or...
View ArticleHow Expectations Mess Up Project Estimates
Glen Alleman recently pointed me to a paper by Jorge Aranda among other material on software estimation. I sat down and read Anchoring and Adjustment in Software Estimation and it was well worth my...
View ArticleWhat’s That Got To Do With The Price Of A Cordless Keyboard?
The pre-frontal cortex of our brains can mislead us. ?Big time. I am continuing my journey into the nature of project estimation and the irrationality of the human mind, in order to get better at it....
View ArticleProject Estimation: Mapping Size and Complexity
Complexity in project estimation is important, and yet many if not most project managers seem to ignore it from what I’ve seen. I have been thinking and reading up quite a bit on relative methods for...
View ArticleScheduling as Premature Elaboration: You?re Doing It Wrong
Scheduling is what project management is all about, right? Among the plethora of project management tools available, what aspect is most widely promoted? Jumping right into MS Project or any other...
View Article6 Books To Make You a Better Project Manager
As 2010 draws to a close, the need for predictions about what will happen in 2011 about.? I have even offered my own guesses and plans here, here, and here. For this year-end post however, I offer some...
View ArticleOracle Primavera Enterprise PPM Virtual Summit
Guest post by Travis Anderson Earn PDUs while learning how Oracle Primavera is adamant about riding the world of project failure. Get started by visiting the registration screen at Oracle Primavera...
View ArticleHow To Estimate Project Work
Recently my team and I tried out a modified hybrid method of doing project estimation. I’d like to share it with you today. This method is essentially a combination with the Delphi method of estimation...
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