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Zombie Projects and How to Kill Them

Rebel’s Guide to PM

One of the first things that project managers learn on training courses is that a project has a start, a middle and an end. Don’t be the project manager that lets a project go on and on by accepting every scope change and picking up all the operational work as well as the requests for new functionality, additions or improvements.

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3 Mistakes Creative Agencies Make When Managing Retainers

Function Point

However, retainers can be dangerous to the agency if they aren’t managed correctly. Writing it down and entering it into your project management software later is not going to cut it. You absolutely must be tracking all of your time, in your agency management software, as you work! Download the EBook.

2008 69
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Software Estimating Resources

Herding Cats

This blog page is dedicated to the resources used to estimate software-intensive systems using traditional and agile development methods. Cost Modeling Agile Software Development,” Maarit Laanti and Petri Kettunen, International Transactions on Systems and Applications, Volume 1 Number 2, pp. Performance Evaluation of non?Markovian

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3 Mistakes Creative Agencies Make When Managing Retainers

Function Point

However, retainers can be dangerous to the agency if they aren’t managed correctly. Writing it down and entering it into your project management software later is not going to cut it. You absolutely must be tracking all of your time, in your agency management software, as you work! Download the EBook.

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Estimating is a Learned Skill

Herding Cats

Estimating is a learned skill, used for any purpose from every-day life to management of projects. The primary purpose of software estimation is not to predict a project’s outcome; it is to determine whether a project’s targets are realistic enough to allow the project to be controlled to meet them ‒ Steve McConnell.