LiveCode and SCRUM tools

[Mark Wieder]

Pete-

Saturday, January 4, 2014, 6:03:47 PM, you wrote:

> That makes sense but just seems like a different take on the same way of
> adjusting schedules using points rather than percentage complete. Not
> saying the "new" ways don't work, just that in my project management
> experience, we could make the same adjustments based on percentage complete
> to date on any particular task in the current project and the history of
> any particular developers' history.

> Seems like it's just different terminology for the same stuff.  But then
> again, I'm just old fashioned.....

Well, part of it is that humans are bad at estimating. For my part, I
tend to be overly optimistic, and I've found that a real-world guess
is 2.5 to 3 times what I think. Breaking a project down into smaller
atomic parts means that you can make more reasonable sizing guesses on
them, and that is reflected in the overall project size. And being
able to tweak the individual parts in real time gives you a good sense
of how the project is progressing.

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-Mark Wieder
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