Develop Project Staffing Agreements
During both the estimation process and the scheduling process, you could be making some major assumptions and, as a result, some major estimation errors.
As we discussed earlier, the people you will have on your team and the experts that you have from your critical stakeholder areas are the main determinant of your project's success.
Oops! Wrong Planet, Wrong Person
Every project manager has experienced the sinking feeling that the person you assumed you were going to have allocated to your project, either as a team member or a stakeholder representative, turns out to be unavailable and you get a substitute.
As shown in Figure 15.8, the work of Weinberg (1971), Jones (1994), Boehm (1989), and Putnam and Myers ...
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