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Where to begin creating your project budget?

Defining a budget for development projects is frequently referred to as an art form. As seems to be true with all business ventures, your cost projection can easily be the subject of “fuzzy math,” with little bearing on reality. Hourly rates for development time, escalation costs for rapid development, and pricing of tools and other [...]

Project success or failure?

When you start a project, how do you define its success?
Success criteria of the developers
How can we account for such radically different viewpoints? First of all, these developers were not novices. They were senior-level, with an average experience level of eight years. They defined success as “completing a technically challenging project and producing a high-quality [...]

How Do You Determine Project Success?

Is fulfilling the triple constraints sufficient to determine if a project is successful?  I asked this question of PM students in my online course about management and leadership in a project environment:
“I worked a project that had rules in place by upper management when I arrived that said that if you used a tool to [...]