Why Good Estimating practices are so important to project risk management.

Project management would be a lot easier if our original plans were accurate and reliable.  This is relatively easy when it comes to follow-on production or deployment of a well-established repeat services.  It gets progressively more difficult as the complexity and risk associated with development projects increases.  In certain organizations, a top-down estimate suffices.  In… Continue reading Why Good Estimating practices are so important to project risk management.

Parkinson’s Law versus Project Risk Management and “doing more with less”.

Parkinson’s Law 2 states that “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”  So what does this imply?  That we are either going to meet our commitments, are miss them – we are not likely to do better than the targets we set.  This is obviously counter to “doing more with… Continue reading Parkinson’s Law versus Project Risk Management and “doing more with less”.