Comments on: Project Scheduling: 90% Done Is Not Almost Done http://www.pmhut.com/project-scheduling-90-done-is-not-almost-done Thu, 24 May 2012 09:02:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Laura Bamberg http://www.pmhut.com/project-scheduling-90-done-is-not-almost-done/comment-page-1#comment-9138 Laura Bamberg Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:47:19 +0000 http://www.pmhut.com/?p=3661#comment-9138 See "The Confidence Question" at http://pm.blogs.com/ for another take on completion percents and estimating. Laura See “The Confidence Question” at http://pm.blogs.com/ for another take on completion percents and estimating.

Laura

]]> By: Shim Marom http://www.pmhut.com/project-scheduling-90-done-is-not-almost-done/comment-page-1#comment-8936 Shim Marom Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:48:52 +0000 http://www.pmhut.com/?p=3661#comment-8936 One other point... One of the ways to get over the creeping scheduling progress is to determine that prior to the commencement of work on the task the progress is 0%. Once work starts, progress is incremented to 50% and it only changes to 100% when the job is done. Obviously, from a project monitoring and controlling perspective, there's still a need to determine progress, but this should be done based on the remaining effort to completion rather than % completion. Shim quantmleap.wordpress.com One other point…

One of the ways to get over the creeping scheduling progress is to determine that prior to the commencement of work on the task the progress is 0%. Once work starts, progress is incremented to 50% and it only changes to 100% when the job is done. Obviously, from a project monitoring and controlling perspective, there’s still a need to determine progress, but this should be done based on the remaining effort to completion rather than % completion.

Shim
quantmleap.wordpress.com

]]> By: Shim Marom http://www.pmhut.com/project-scheduling-90-done-is-not-almost-done/comment-page-1#comment-8935 Shim Marom Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:40:17 +0000 http://www.pmhut.com/?p=3661#comment-8935 Reminds me of a case where one of the programmers, when reporting on the progress of his task made the following observation: "It's done, but not done done." Since then we've coined the phrase "it's not done until it's done done". Reminds me of a case where one of the programmers, when reporting on the progress of his task made the following observation: “It’s done, but not done done.” Since then we’ve coined the phrase “it’s not done until it’s done done”.

]]> By: Bruce Benson http://www.pmhut.com/project-scheduling-90-done-is-not-almost-done/comment-page-1#comment-8849 Bruce Benson Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:02:44 +0000 http://www.pmhut.com/?p=3661#comment-8849 Years ago I had a project management instructor that often repeated "one hundred percent of nothing ... is nothing." He drilled into us that percent completion meant nothing by itself. He taught the same approach of counting only completed tasks and that tasks had to be divided into fairly small duration efforts (two weeks was the largest he would accept). This is always a good reminder, for doing anything in life. Bruce http://PMToolsThatWork.com Years ago I had a project management instructor that often repeated “one hundred percent of nothing … is nothing.”

He drilled into us that percent completion meant nothing by itself. He taught the same approach of counting only completed tasks and that tasks had to be divided into fairly small duration efforts (two weeks was the largest he would accept).

This is always a good reminder, for doing anything in life.

Bruce
http://PMToolsThatWork.com

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