"Holy purpose. "
"Wanner of my emperor is long. "
"Feng Tian carries, the emperor is 曰, this project should be completed on time after three months, if there is a violation ... kill innocent! Such this. "
"Chen Xie Chi Longn. "
The father-in-one father-in-one is only left. I saw the project manager's face of iron. I was facing the old man. I couldn't help but sigh, and I went to tears. "Hey, I don't want the old man in the world. I will be buried in this project. on. Three months ... How is this possible? Even the test time is not enough, see this is a big sin of the deception of a copy of the family, this can be good ... "
Many times, the project we have encountered, Schedule is always done according to a magical factor, maybe the customer with his boss gambling swear will be Deliver's deadline, or the high-level supervisor is for performance hard score. Shouting time. Regardless of the SCHEDULE, for Project Team, it feels that it always feels far less. For most of the TEAM Member that does not have the opportunity to participate in Project Planning, each time I receive this case, I heard such a Schedule, I always cool in my heart. "How can there be such a free Schedule? "Then, if you are funeral, it seems that the sacred generals have been received by the Monetary Mongolian. As long as you can't do it, Deadline will come to the nine family.
This reminds me of my customers: "The schedule you have elected, represent your company's commitment to us, once you gave us a promise, no matter how much price you have to pay, you should swear to complete the task. Why do you give me a schedule each time, will it be extended again? Where is your discipline? What is your determination? What is the software development? This is because you have not determined, no discipline. I didn't care about the promise ... "In fact, many customers have the same point of view.
For most customers, Project's Schedule is a very important thing. This may affect the following very important things:
Ÿ When can I call the big head to see Demo?
Ÿ When can the system go online?
Ÿ What will my performance this year? How many stocks can you miss?
I am finished, actually DELAY!
For Sales responsible for quotation, Schedule represents different significance:
Ÿ Average number * Schedule * Average salary = total quote total amount. Schedule can't be too short, otherwise you will make money.
Ÿ Schedule can't be too long, the long customers will not give us the case. And it is very likely to grab the competitors.
Ÿ Schedule is slightly longer than the customer's time, so that both parties are bargaining, they will fall into a relatively acceptable range. After multiplying the number of people, let the total amount fall within the customer's budget and can be slightly lower than the opponent. Well, I am really a superior Sales of the English.
For engineers, Schedule is based on an understanding of the facts, as well as past experience, is made for future estimates. It is because software development is very difficult, so this estimate is not allowed to be quite big. Not to mention most of the time, the project's schedule often has the project manager or Sales, or the result of shooting darts, with the inner heart is completely independent of Schedule's definition or idea. So for most engineers, Schedule delay is not the coming of the end of the world. Well, It's Just Another ORDINARY DAY. There is a friend, the answer gives the most classic: "Schedule is originally used to be used by DELAY, or do you subscribe to Schedule? For Schedule delay, customers feel that the engineer feels that this seems to be a trial of Las Vegas, and a small loss, this is the normal state of life, you have to learn Upon accepting it, so. For the cognition of Schedule, this has caused "as long as there is a project delay, the two sides will argue, the people will be angry".
Delay seems to be the normal state of the software industry. For many people, do not delay. At the same time as writing this chapter, I tried very hard to recall: "Which project I have ever done, can I finish it in the original estimated time? I thought I thought, vigorously thought that I found out that my ancestors were found and asked, and the answer was "no. "
This may be because I have done too little, it will be so unfortunate, each Project is DELAY. However, I carefully interviewed friends and family, neighbors, and I also ran to the rice table for La Rii, and the results got were not unpleasant.
Most Project can't escape the magic curse of DELAY. Originally, the result was six years; to do a year and a half years, it is expected to be a month to drag for three months. Every case has its own reasons, but the results are the same: "There is no way to hand over the finished product that is expected to be handed in the expected time. "
Many expert scholars wrote a lot of books to discuss this issue, propose a wide range of practices, hoping to eradicate the freedom of this software industry. Some people think that there is a problem with the estimated method. Some people think that there is a problem with project management ... everyone's statement, it looks like it is a matter, I don't have one verification, this is an expert scholar Things, interested people buy themselves to buy this textbook.
※ Author Note: People who are interested in this topic can refer to the book about Function Point, or other Software Metrics, I personally like Tom Demarco's Controlling Software Projects (this book is a little bit). If you want to find a non-information point of view, I recommend the Critical Chain written by Gaoderat, which is a novel of the project management from his restriction theory (TOC, THEORY CONSTRAINT). To find TOC details The theory or the manual, go to the book on the book on Amazon.
In this chapter, I want to talk about the sign of Delay, people related to this project, what kind of countermeasure will take, and my own opinion on these typical countermeasures.
Generally encountering the project with delay's signs, usually we will take the approach to the following:
Ÿ Escape problem
Ÿ Escape
Ÿ ÿ 交 指 指
Ÿ ÿ 事 ÿ ÿ ÿ 银 银 银 弹
Ÿ Add the frequency of STATUS REPORT
Ÿ Add people hand and burnout
Ÿ Replacement project manager
Ÿ Focus on the solution, not the responsibility
Ÿ narrow Scope
Ÿ Re-order reasonable schedule, and cooperate with moderate project assessment measures
avoiding problem
Escape the problem is not a trick, but in the early days of the project delay, the problem is not very highlighting, often favored by the project manager. Escape problems can usually be dragged for a while until the problem is naturally deteriorated to fail to flee, and other methods are needed.
Although there is a saying: "I can't escape from the time. However, in the process of escaping, members of all projects can have a chance to have a breath and have changed for a while. So escape the problem or very Popular. In general, if you can hide, no one will jump in the fire pit, and often look at the people of M. Lausewood movie, will always look forward to the people who will care about the people, every time I get a thousand, I will have a beautiful finale. Handsome girls can love the days of love with happiness from this day. So as long as you have made this time, this Milestone is reached, and things should be gradually entered. In this kind of self-hypnosis, we learned to escape the problem. Usually we will take the following escape:
Ÿ 解 解, and use a wide range of excuse to delay Schedule
Ÿ This Phase lost time, will recall from the next Phase.
Ÿ Reject any clear commitment
Unlink, and use a wide range of excuse to delay Schedule
Have you seen the stock market analyst solution? "Sports from the Nasdaq index from the United States, the market is high after opening, and now the weighted index has come to 4,758 points, the volume of the transaction has now reached 90 billion ..."
Some project managers, once you see Delay's signs, you will start trying to get the same as stock market analysts, and when the project will end every day, then update forecasts every day. Today, I will guess for three months, I will guess tomorrow, I will remain three months later.
Joana: How long does you think can you go online?
Bruce: From my hand, I can see that the results of Break Down to each process can be seen. We still have one hundred and twenty procedures. At present, 30% of the completion of 20% completed 80%. ... (slightly, he said ten minutes) so everything goes well, for another three months.
Three months ...
Joana: How long does you think can you go online?
Bruce: According to the latest statistics in my hand ... (slightly, he said twenty minutes), because ... (slightly, he said twenty minutes), so the time beyond our original estimate. If everything goes well, for another three months.
After another year ...
Joana: How long does you think can you go online?
Bruce: According to ... (slightly, he talked about 30 minutes), because ... (slightly, he said twenty minutes), so time beyond our original estimate. If everything goes well, for another three months.
The mystery of the solution is that he has to make a reasonable saying, let you think that this delay is reasonable, and this project delay is caused by unpredictable factors. And this time the estimate should be relatively close to the last result. Then you have to find a wide variety of reasons to delay Schedule. E.g:
Ÿ Because the United States suffers from 911 horror horror attacks, there is no consultant is willing to do this when it is so dangerous, so we originally an estimate of the situation, so it is necessary. I think it should be extended for a month. (It seems impeccable) ÿ Borrowed the invisible cloak to Harry Potter, hiding Iraq's large-scale weapons, so we need to find mad-eyes, Through his magic eye, you can find a large-scale destruction weapon in Iraq. So I want to find Schedule, Iraq's massive destruction weapon evidence, should be extended for about three months. (It should also be enough to make some evidences to make some evidence.)
(Author Note: For Harry Potter, please refer to J.K. Rowling work. Mad-eye Moody can refer to "Harry Potter and the GOBLET OF Fire.")
If Harry Potter has to move, you know this is a hard thing. Every time you think so many reasonable reasons are not easy. Most of the time, it can be pushed to the project member to encounter an unprecedented difficulties in history, so that the prediction and the truth have a significant drop. I personally recommend the following standard speech:
From now until now, we fully understand how tricky of this system, its complexity, far beyond our expectations, your Domain Knowledge is really very deep, for the system, it is Feature, It is really very very very close to consider. I have done so many systems, I have never done a system that considers such a week. So we have always hope that you can do your expectations when designing procedures, but on the other hand, we hope that the system can have enough flexibility, so this Module is very complicated. Although it is very complicated, our programming designer continues to work hard, keep working overtime, so in the STATUS Report I have provided, I haven't put this feature delay, because I Think that we should have a MEET that has both schedule. It is a pity, although we have worked hard, it still has some small bugs, and does not test through our internal testers. Products in quality, we don't dare to give customers a customer because of the most important quality. If the grass rate is on the line, the information will be disorderly, and the problems caused by it. In order to provide the best quality, I think we will take a little time. When the current situation is judged, we need to go back to DELAY for three months.
Key Tip:
First, things are difficult. You are so powerful, you can understand such a complicated thing.
Second, things are very complicated, so do it for a long time.
Third, this is the most important, our people have continued to overtake. It didn't come forward this time. DELAY was because I wanted to catch up.
Fourth, no matter how much is written, you must tell customers that it is already tested, there are only some small bugs. How much is this module written?
Five, we want delay.
After solving a few times, the trouble will start. You have to make enough guess to approach the actual situation. If you have a good luck, there are always a few more guesses. At this time, you can claim how you are foresight. This is the same as the stock market, with a wide range of non-use theories, as well as a wide variety of professional charts, pile up countless nonsense, and then propose a different answer every day. For some parties that are not allowed, he will easily take it; for more close parts, he will work hard to promote his amazing forecasting and execution. This method is actually a very bad side effect, that is, it will lose credit. Every time the data is different, it will be questioned by people to manage the ability of your management. Just follow the stock market teachers, if the name is not allowed, it will not receive the same member. However, for some supervisors, this is called "to adjust the outstage results at the latest situation, so that we can master the latest developments. "Use the investment world is that this is" the strategy of adjusting the investment at any time in the market. "
The solution is actually serious, and you will go to the excuse. Rookie managers often try to interpret all signs and make the latest prediction. It's just too frequent, and it will lose credit with the failure of various prophesies. Experienced people tell us that Schedule is not too frequent unless it is subject to major changes. It is too confused to avoid people who receive a message. But don't drag too long, for example, when you want MISS a Milestone, you will have color delay, so you will be sourced by angry customers. Generally, if Project is within half a year, the two weeks left and right REVIEWs are very reasonable. If time is longer, it is quite reasonable for more reasonable REVIEW.
Of course, some people who are very self-sufficient, don't use it so troublesome. They don't have to observe how much the real schedule is delay, and the way they take is:
At this stage, it will be overtime from the next stage.
On a certain Project Review Meeting.
Joana: Bruce, according to your professional, what do you think of the current situation?
Bruce: I think we are analyzing this Phase, which is late than the original expectation.
Joana: What remedies do you have? You know this project is important to us.
Bruce, I haven't done it, I haven't done the case for customers: I think we will work overtime during the subsequent design phase to see if you can catch up with the present progress.
Joana: That's going to you.
Project Review Meeting at the Design Phase Milestone approximation.
Joana: Bruce, according to your professional, what do you think of the current situation?
Bruce: I think we are designing this Phase, there should be no way to get a month. In fact, I think we should only be completed according to the original progress.
Joana: What do you plan now?
Bruce thinks, I know that you will ask this, I am getting ready to answer: I think I will ask Programmer to start Coding. Although our Design has not yet been completed, the body architecture is almost almost, there is only some very fine places to be modified. We take the PIPELINE approach to seek a little time. I think we originally analyze the time of DELAY, you should catch up with Coding. I will ask our mainland Office to support three manpower.
Joana: That's going to you.
Result Design not only delay, I entered Coding too early, but also faced countless DESIGN CHANGE, it seems that Project should delay half a year. On this Project Review Meeting. Joana: Bruce, how long will Project How long does DELAY? Is it a problem with your company's resource?
Bruce: Nothing, there is absolutely no resource insufficient problem.
Joana: You will not tell me some of your Coding delay, can you catch up with the test phase?
Bruce: I think we have to look at this problem very professional. In accordance with the current situation, it should be delay nine months ... (since it is necessary to call Delay, always pay a bit of buffer ...)
Joana: What! ! !
Bruce: About this question, I feel very sorry ...
Usually self-righteous programming designers, or a lucky project manager, will hold a beautiful dream: "The progress of Delay should be able to catch up in the next stage. "The stronger the people, the easier, the easier, the easier it is. Many people will think: "As long as I have, how do you add anyone, let's come to a double sword, you should go to the original progress. "
Yes, if you can really have a double sword, you should have the opportunity to achieve it. However, in most cases, "double swords" becomes "blessing why". Through the magical generator, the project can suddenly accelerate the project, then let your items will be delivered on time. This kind of thing to borrow, usually, will not happen, just kissing with boys and girls will not be pregnant.
(Author Note: For those who don't know the double sword, please refer to Mr. Jin Yong's "God Carving Heroes".)
Of course, there are unexpected winds. Thanks to the Virgin Mary, this world will always have a beautiful accident. Some gifts will still be rare from the sky. Virgin suffers from God's care, or you can pregnant. There will always have several members who have undergone members, and the team will achieve the myth of the task smoothly. But behind the bright and bright, it usually has to pay quite painless consideration. The most common price is the person who finishes things, and let people go after it is finished.
In my personal experience, the myth of "DELAY in this stage can catch up with the next Phase", "has never happened. Perhaps this is not good with my luck, and I will have a relationship between the boss. However, most people, buy color coupons to finally do merits, funding those who need help. According to my observation, it will take this means of covering the pole, and the starting point is not to be deceived. The main reason should be afraid of being disappointed, so I will find some "good lies", or "not complete enough" fact". Then I will find a way to work hard to meet the expectations of others. This kind of student who tends to be particularly good in the school's performance. "How can I let the teacher disappointed? This test is not good, I must double my efforts to make a beautiful transcript. "
The problem is to do the project is not attending the exam, which is a team of teamwork. There is no good planning and communication coordination, and the light is serious, it is difficult to chase the progress of the loss. Project will delay, in fact, there are many factors. Many students who have excellent performance in schools. As long as they are scolded by teachers, they will have lost their measures. If there is nothing, most of them will become cynical, and the heart is resentful.
Here is the advantage of a bad homework. If you have already accused of it, you have already done a hundred-year-old training. The ruthless shelling of customers, in fact, the test of zero was discovered by parents with a child, ready to hang it, it is a matter. Anyone who has this experience should be more suitable for the project manager for the software industry than the genius children excellent in homework. This may also explain why idiots can be the cause of the supervisor. (Author Note: If you are in charge of an idiot, there is no feeling, you can refer to a great book: "Star Rule".)
If you think that the customer has no way to accept the real situation, you will want to say some "The truth being modified", so as not to disappoint. It is very likely that there is no way to accept the truth of the truth, just have yourself. It is said that "the light irretentions must be", do not want to accept the fact, only people who want to promise easily, will be worn by the customer too long.
If you want to do any changes, you can catch up with Schedule with the superman overtime. Do you want to consider spending money to buy a lottery? As long as you have a grand prize, you should not have to work, this is not to worry about DELAY problem?
People who are willing to commit to the next Phase can catch up with it. If it is not completely perfunctory, you will think about how to catch up with the progress. Some people will take a very different angle, they work hard to think hard, but they have no conclusion. At the end, the following will take the following: Reject any clear commitment.
