Hi Philippe,
I had (and have) no issues with the process or the descriptions of
the milestones. I would just point out that having exit metrics for
a milestone doesn't always mean you can tell when you will exit. We
have had varying performance metrics over the years, and it has taken
us varying (and long) times to meet those metrics. So +1 to exit
criteria and the milestones you listed, but caution on believing that
means we know how long it will take to hit perf targets.
Ted
On Feb 28, 2007, at 2:26 PM, Philippe Bossut wrote:
Hi,
About...
Sheila Mooney wrote:
+ There is some anxiety around the uncertain release date. Some
are not comfortable with a release date that is constantly
slipping or not being able to rally and plan/pace around a fixed
solid date. They would like to pick a fixed date and cut in order
to make it.
...the only way I know of handling risks is to mitigate them with
some level of process, i.e. predetermine check lists used to assess
the health and progress of the project. In that particular instance
(schedule uncertainty) there's no substitute to pacing ourselves
through a set of identified milestones and check if we pass them or
not.
I wrote such a list of fine granularity milestones and associated
criteria some weeks ago:
http://lists.osafoundation.org/pipermail/chandler-dev/2007-
February/007658.html
I didn't receive any comment on it meaning that either everyone
agreed or, more than likely, the objective of such process was
unclear.
So, here we go: the objective of this process is to mitigate the
risk of an uncontrollably slipping schedule: identify were we are
in the schedule, how we are doing and how far we are from the final
objective.
Of course, this is of little use if there's no buy in from the
interested parties, so I think I'm asking the question again:
comments on the proposed process?
Cheers,
- Philippe
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