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The Complete Glossary of 614 Project Management Terms

Workamajig

Actual dates are different from planned or estimated dates. Actual Effort: The actual effort spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated effort. Actual Expenditure: The actual expenditure spent to complete the activity, as opposed to the planned or estimated expenditure.

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Questioning Agile Dogma

Leading Agile

It includes advice about planning for employee burn-out and burning them out quite deliberately. No one was able to determine accurately how long it would take to provide the business with any given operational capability if that capability depended to any extent on software being developed and delivered.

Agile 101