Choose a Schedule Model
Problem: You don’t know if your schedule should target a specific date or the completion of an agreed set of work.
No two project schedules are alike, but most of them will fall into one of three basic categories: calendar-based, feature-based, and whim-based. Let’s examine the last one first; it’s very simple and then we can put it aside for the rest of the chapter.
“Whim-based” schedules aren’t actually schedules: you’re deciding to release on a whim. In most cases, you’re probably not going to wake up one morning and say “I think today is release day!” What probably happens is that you have some time to get some work done on the project and you say “okay, that’s it for now.”
Whim-based schedules are fine for projects ...
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