February 2004 - Predicting Project Completion

Meeting was held: February 12, 2004 at the Providence Marriott

** This was a joint meeting with RIASQ, the Rhode Island Association for Software Quality **

FEATURED SPEAKER: Johanna Rothman

FEATURED TOPIC: Predicting Project Completion

About the speaker

Johanna Rothman consults on managing high technology product development. She helps managers, teams, and organizations become more effective by focusing on project management, risk management and people management. Johanna uses pragmatic techniques to help her clients apply effective practices that create successful teams and projects.

A frequent speaker and author on managing high technology product development, Johanna has written numerous articles and is now a columnist for Software Development, Computerworld.com, and StickyMinds.com. Johanna publishes Reflections, an acclaimed quarterly newsletter about managing product development. Johanna is a member of the clinical faculty of The Gordon Institute at Tufts University, a practical management degree program for engineers, and served as the Program Chair for the Software Management Conference for two years. Johanna's book, Hiring Technical People will be available in November 2003.

About the presentation

Many of us want to know when the project will be complete. And if you've ever read any of the project management books, you know that if you just plan it well, the project will happily fall into place.

Uh huh. If you've ever managed a project, you know that the schedule is the one way it won't happen. However, there are practices you can use during the project, and measurements you can take during a project to more accurately predict the end of the project. In this presentation, we'll discuss techniques to avoid the 90% syndrome (after the first 90%, you still have 90% of the project left), and how to predict the end of the project more successfully.

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