Managing IT Projects: How to Pragmatically Deliver Projects for External Customers

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M. DąbrowskiManaging IT Projectshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9243-3_17

17. Low-Level Estimates – A Source of Everlasting Delays and a Foundation of Planning

Marcin Dąbrowski¹  

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Nowy Wiśnicz, Poland

 

Compared to the ability to organize your work on a daily basis, everything else in life seems just childish.

—Johann Wolfgang Goethe

When delays finally emerge in a project (and it is just a question of time), the process of hunting the guilty party begins automatically and in some sense subconsciously. As it turns out, in this matter, most organizations display here some sort of a Pavlov’s reflex. If you ask anyone who is to blame the “obvious” answer is: ...