“Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.” – Douglas Adams As I mentioned in my previous post, Risk Buffers – An Example, this post is dedicated to identifying …
Two (or six) months into your project, you and your business owner disagree about whether a particular feature or component is included in the project. You, of course, consider this controversial item obscure and expensive to include; the business owner, in contrast, asserts that it is absolutely essential, the whole …
“Is the PaRC Coding task complete?” asked Evelyn, the PM. “Yes,” responded Jeff, one of the best programmers, who then continued “I completed all of the coding yesterday.” “But what about the unit testing?” Evelyn followed up. “No, I’ll get to that tomorrow,” replied Jeff. “But the task includes coding …
