Chapter 9. Scheduling
Contents
9.1 Overly Optimistic Scheduling
9.2 Beating Schedule Pressure
Related Topics
Estimation: Chapter 8
50/50 scheduling: Odds of Completing on Time
Development-speed trade-offs: Development-Speed Trade-Offs
Commitment-based scheduling: Sections 2.5 and 8.5
Customer relations: Chapter 10
Theory-W management: Chapter 37
Voluntary overtime: Chapter 43
Summary of principled negotiation: Chapter 29
MY TEAM SPENT SEVERAL DAYS WORKING ON a detailed project estimate. (Yes, this is my experience—not a case study.) We divided the project into several dozen features, and each person estimated each feature individually. We spent two long days discussing the estimates feature by feature so that we fully understood the variability in each one. ...
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