Typical Schedule-Improvement Pattern
Organizations that try to improve their development speed by moving toward efficient development follow a predictable pattern. If you take 100 typical projects, you'd find that their chances of coming in on time would look like Figure 6-11.
Figure 6-11. Typical-development schedule curve. Typical projects make schedule plans that they have almost no chance of meeting.
Among typical projects, the spread of project performance is wide, and many of the projects have severe overruns. Look at how much of the curve in Figure 6-10 is to the right of the planned-schedule line on typical projects. Few typical projects come ...
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