6Test Project Evaluation and Reporting

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6.1Introduction

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In Chapter 5, we used a scenario of planning a summer vacation as a way to introduce the project management topics of planning, risk management, and retrospectives. Following with this analogy, once the vacation has begun, it’s important to track and evaluate several areas to help ensure that our vacation is successful. For example, from a project perspective, we’d need to determine our budget beforehand and, throughout the trip (without getting too exacting) we could do periodic variance analysis. This analysis could compare our actual expenses to date against both our overall budget and budget to date. We could ...

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