Considerations

Catering for General Day to Day overheads

So we estimate and plan for the task we need to undertake, but have we allowed for tall that reporting, meetings, reviews or just general...

Agile or Iterative

We have been in too many projects that say there are agile delivery simply because they have daily meetings, have roles called scrum...

Onboarding and resource levelling

When we are working on large projects with large numbers of resources we cannot simply estimate effort and then plan this into the time...

All Resources are not created equal

When we estimate effort who are we think about when creating the estimate ? A beginner, a person with 5 years experience, a specialist ?...

Small Change Vs Initiative Vs Project

Organisations are constantly going through changes and as such business and IT units are used to managing change and change initiatives....

Contingency

From the outset of any project, we should be clear about how we are handling contingency. The approach should be written down and agreed...

About this Section of the Website

After 40+ years in the industry (IT, Software Development, Large Programme Delivery etc) and working with various industry experts, there...