Twenty Percent.

This article describes software projects, and how the management of many companies have agreed to probability of completion rates that are as low as 20%. The author reports about many instances where project managers fully expect a late delivery or delayed installation. When the inevitability of a d...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 50; no. 6; pp. 21 - 24
Autor principal: Armour, Phillip G.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Jun2007
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Sumario:This article describes software projects, and how the management of many companies have agreed to probability of completion rates that are as low as 20%. The author reports about many instances where project managers fully expect a late delivery or delayed installation. When the inevitability of a delay becomes obvious, the workload increases to intense levels, causing teams to work in very inefficient and error-inducing ways. The most frequent method that companies use to create estimates is to begin with a plan for the project, which comprises a network of interconnected tasks and predicted dependencies and relationships.