No matter what the chosen process is or how tasks are broken up, every major project I’ve been on has been time blocked:
- Management decides the new system should be finished by date X.
- The analysts and project manager divide the amount of tasks by the number of iterations available before date X.
- For each iteration-task-set you divide it evenly amongst your available developers.
- You ask your developers for an estimation on their tasks for each iteration.
- They respond by taking the number of assigned tasks, divided by the hours available in the iteration.
- Some magic happens (scope reduction, overtime, bring in experts to clean up, implement tasks with TODO: statements)
- The project finishes on date X.
I’ve developed this project management process on a single MS excel sheet. I’m making it available for a cost of $1000 per seat with an annual $10K maintenance charge. Of course I can offer consulting services to customize it to your corporation at a $300/hour bill rate. Do you like curly fonts?
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