CHAPTER 7

Plan the Iterative Project

In This Chapter

• What type of project is this?

• How do you plan from the top down to arrive at a high-level schedule?

• How do you plan from the bottom up to make sure there’s enough time and resources to do all the work?

• How can you make plans for the unexpected?

• How can visual tools assist your planning?

In the early days at TorranceLearning, we had a small team, a handful of clients, and only a few relatively simple projects at any given time. Back then it was easy enough to manage our work and keep things in our heads, a few Excel sheets, and email threads. As we grew, added teammates, and had a larger client base and more complex projects, it became clear that this ad hoc method of managing our ...

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