12. Show Your Status and Update Your Estimate
Sometimes, you need to explain where you are in the project, and when you expect to be done to other people. Consider a probabilistic estimate.
Make sure you don’t fall into the 90% Done schedule game. (See Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management, (ROTPM) for a large list of schedule games, including the 90% Done game.)
And, when are you done? You can stop a project if there is no more value, or you’ve run out of time, money, or people.
Let’s take each of these.
12.1 Probabilistic Scheduling
When I was writing Manage It!, I had no idea how far along I was. My editor and publisher wanted to know when I would be done.
When I write, I have several phases: the exploratory phase, ...
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