This was a very useful article but I would like to see one that addressed the real world problems of doing the reverse i.e. effectively planning a project when the budget is fixed upfront.
I am relatively new to project management, my main role being that of client-side development, and I always have the same problem as my company is small and usually driven by short term casshflow requirements. Project budgets are often fixed by the sales team, before I even get a look-in. How do you deal pragmatically with this sort of situation?
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My experience with short-budget and time-limited projects is that you have to sacrifice the quality of the final product up to an acceptable limit.
Typical scenario is that unfortunately the vendor has agreed a prize that may cover your required amount of hours to develop the project but the deadline is not so far. Adding manpower is no solution since projects must mature in some way and, beyond certain point, adding extra analysts and programmers will increase management and coordination effort and not ease development.
There is also a Law you should always follow: do NEVER believe your manager when he or she says: "I trust you; I know you can do it great, so you don't need that much time to test and debug". Just don't buy that.
Typical scenario is that unfortunately the vendor has agreed a prize that may cover your required amount of hours to develop the project but the deadline is not so far. Adding manpower is no solution since projects must mature in some way and, beyond certain point, adding extra analysts and programmers will increase management and coordination effort and not ease development.
There is also a Law you should always follow: do NEVER believe your manager when he or she says: "I trust you; I know you can do it great, so you don't need that much time to test and debug". Just don't buy that.
Project Monitor is a french tool for project management that I know well. The software is published by the company Virage Group. English is supported by this software very well. More information on http://www.viragegroup.com.
This is a complete solution to manage projects by milestone, workpackages, tasks, budgets allowed, ressource activities, from reporting to consolidated information of sets of projects
This is a complete solution to manage projects by milestone, workpackages, tasks, budgets allowed, ressource activities, from reporting to consolidated information of sets of projects
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