Estimating That Really Works
How do you estimate individual tasks
and the entire project (far sooner than is fair)? How do
you prevent management from
nailing rough estimates in stone? How do you place poor estimators on the
project path? How do you build in budgets for
contingencies and maintain risk profiles without scaring
management?
The Focus. New research reveals that 44 percent of project managers
do not know what percent of their organizations projects came in
on time; Sixty-four percent do not know what percent of their
projects came in as budgeted; it only gets worse: Eighty-four
percent did not know what percent of their projects met
requirements specifications. AND guess what? The reason the
estimated are so bad is NOT THE MATH! It's about the behavioral
aspects that get ignored, as usual. Consider this: don't spend
the money learning how to do the math (with whatever
sophisticated software is out there!) when you might be learning
how to "do" the people (who are far more
intelligent!).
Conducted Wed., April 5th, 2006
“Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat
it."
-- Georges Santayana, philosopher
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