Effective Project Management for Software Development: Fine Tuning Software Project Management for Optimum Results by Jonathan Cook

Author:Jonathan Cook [Cook, Jonathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-12-08T08:00:00+00:00

Effective Project Management for Software Development

Project managers also fail to properly recognize what

a Full Time Equivalent resource really means.

Solution: Understand the real and practical Full

Time Equivalent (FTE) resource: An FTE is the work one

person can do in one day. One day is commonly

considered to be an eight hour work day. However, in

practice no one works an effective full eight hours

(sustainable over the long term) in one day. No matter

how hard a person works, on average only about six

effective hours are available in an eight hour day.

Between breaks, meals, meetings, interruptions, the

various crisis that pop up in every organization,

vacations, sick, etc. even six hours a day is a highly

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effective resource.

When loading resources you should consider not work

effort days (or units or other esoteric measurements), but

work effort hours where six hours results in a scheduled

day.

Jonathan Cook has seen project managers regularly

overload resources to 200% and more. Often the project

manager will not even consult the project resource

reports to see the overloading. They simply throw

resources at a task based on resource experience rather

than availability.

If the project does not fit the fixed schedule then

adjustments should be made. In no case should these

adjustments create a resource overload. You can just

about guarantee poor project results if resources are

overloaded.

24 General Project Management Concepts (and Their Flaws and

Solutions for Software Development)

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