A look back at the best from this week in the past.
Why Your Project Plan Will Fail
You’ve written a project plan. Your team is ready to start. Here’s the bad news – you’re going to fail. But why? How can you avoid failure?
Flashback: A Year Ago This Week on Tyner Blain [2006-04-28]
A look back at the best from a year ago.
Flashback: A Year Ago This Week on Tyner Blain [2006-04-14]
A look back at the best from a year ago.
Where Did You Get That Estimate?
How good are our estimates? We can use PERT to estimate the time it will take to implement each requirement. We can use timeboxes to schedule the requirements within each release. If we don’t know how good our estimates are, its an exercise in futility. Scheduling is about more than predicting the future, its about knowing how much faith to have in our predictions.
Foundation Series: Basic PERT Estimate Tutorial
PERT is a technique for providing definitive estimates of how long it will take to complete tasks. We often estimate, or scope, the amount of time it will take us to complete a task or tasks. PERT allows us to provide not only an estimate, but a measure of how good the estimate is. Good estimates are a critical element in any software planning strategy. In this post, we will present an introduction to using PERT, explain how it works and how to interpret PERT estimates.