Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips
Estimating budgets months and years into the future is difficult. I have yet to meet anyone who does it well enough to risk large amounts of anything valuable. The Excel spreadsheet calculates well enough, but it can provide a false sense of precision. Instead, I use a slide rule. The difficulty of using [...]

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by Dwayne Phillips
It is possible to predict the future on projects. It is also possible to change the future on projects. Knowing this second property and how to state it can make a big difference to project stakeholders.
It is possible to predict the future. Given a system-building project that has been planned properly, you can [...]

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by Dwayne Phillips
People don’t predict the future well. A problems is that we attempt to predict the future often. Failing to predict the future can bring labels like “liar” and “moron.” Take care when you are about to predict the future.
People often predict the future. Let’s change that a little: people often attempt to predict [...]

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