Evidence Based Scheduling

July 20, 2009 · Filed Under Software Estimating  - 0 Comment(s)

Joel on Software (Joel Spolsky) sent an email recently discussing the release of a major update to one of his products.  He pointed out they shipped two weeks early.  He stated some of the features got dropped but they still made their ship date.  Even if Standish might call this a challenged project I believe it was well run and successful.

Joel’s use of evidenced based scheduling, which estimates every root level task and looks at performance versus estimates, combined with Monte Carlo analysis to predict project completion.  Evidence based scheduling original topic well worth a read.


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