A Lot – Fast – Cheap – Good’ is a set of expectations that can never be achieved simultaneously. These expectations are the result of the customer’s (completely understandable) lack of understanding regarding the realistic efforts required to achieve the project’s goals, as well as lack of trust regarding the estimates presented at the project’s sale. Why is this? Well,…
Known also as The Triple Constraints Describes the constraints in the project and the competition between them demonstrates the basic mathematical relationship between its parts: any change to one axis necessitates corresponding change in one or more of the others The task: Balance competing constraints before committing to a project The challenge: to keep the triangle balanced throughout the project…
A project is: Developing a software Starting up a business Building or renovating a home Putting together a special event Writing a book Developing a new product or service A project is any time-intensive effort—defined by a clear beginning and end—that attempts to achieve a particular aim and operates under a specific set of constraints. Most projects are characterized by…
As an experienced project manager, I have led many different projects in my life – both professional and personal. This project was different. COVID-19 SPRINT is an Open Source program that recruited dozens of volunteers from across varied disciplines in an effort to find effective, inexpensive and rapid solutions to various medical challenges related to the corona epidemic. The program…
After the project has been broken down into appropriate level tasks in the work plan, any dependencies between various tasks must be determined and defined. As part of this process it is important to examine whether any task is dependent on any other task, and if so, how. People often go astray here and create unnecessary and strange connections between…
Along with compiling a detailed list of project tasks, it is necessary to identify and define the various milestones that will help track the project’s progress at the control stage and help ensure communication between the various people involved in the project. Milestones were originally stones placed at constant distance from one another along a road, serving as measurement of…
