Chapter 25. Project Tracking and Control

Many projects burn energy but don't get anywhere. A key project management skill is to know how to track real progress, not just effort. This chapter introduces methods and tools for tracking progress. It is about project tracking and control, and it shows how to use tools to assess the real progress being made by the project team. The case study uses few progress tracking techniques, so the people involved think they are 90 percent complete all the time. They could have use earned value analysis and other tracking techniques to assess time-based progress toward milestones.

Where We Are in the Product Development Life Cycle

Where are we in the basic software life cycle model that serves as our map? As shown ...

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