project management

Software project estimation is a tough. If you get it right, great; but if you get it wrong - that's an issue.
For anything but the most trivial, repetitive tasks there is no simple way. Except, math and the experience of other people. In this blog post we will describe an industry-standard Program Evaluation Review Technique that can help plan projects more realistically and even calculate expected error of estimation.

There is lots of talk about iterations in the world of Agile Software. What does it all mean? Read this post to find out.

Unlike many other goods and services, the process of estimating software cost is uniquely difficult. In this post, I’ll address some of the factors that contribute to this difficulty and make some recommendations on how to mitigate the risk of your project going over budget.

What could be so dangerous about planning, you ask?

Most project managers see planning as the first and most helpful step they can take towards getting their projects off on the right foot.

Yet, in the process of planning, PMs often miss the forest for the trees. Forgetting to re-plan your project, missing the business case, or building a project plan that is too complicated for the effort it is meant to support can doom your plans to failure.

In this blog entry, I’ll talk a bit about each of these risks, and how to avoid them.