206 Part II: Planning Your Software Project (Freelance web design) Figure
206 Part II: Planning Your Software Project Figure 9-4: Kill points are oppor tunities to stop the project. Live with deliverable for the short term and then move the project into versioning. Live with the deliverable as it is because there s no more cash available to sink into the project. Trimming the project scope can be a great solution (okay, it s not great, but it is acceptable sometimes) for projects that have never been attempted before. Projects with undertakings that have no historical information, no point of reference, and no expert judgment to rely on are projects that are just begging to run over on cost. By reducing the scope, you re able to create a deliverable and not go wildly over on cost overruns. This approach, as Figure 9-4 illustrates, is most feasible if you have incorporated kill points into your project. A kill point is a point during the project where the project is slated for review. The idea is that management reviews the overall success of your project up to a certain deliverable. If your project is doing well, congrats! You get to advance to the next phase of your project. If your project is not doing so hot, then your project is cancelled or postponed. Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Phase 4 Kill points Begging for cash If trimming the project scope is not an option (and often it s not), then your option is limited to asking for more cash to complete the project. Typically, it s easier to get more time than money, but because you re usually buying the developers time to complete the project work, time and money are tied together. When you re forced into this scenario, you really need all the facts about what has gone wrong and why. Most importantly, you need to be able to determine how you ll avoid making the same mistakes again. You can use your lessons learned document and your root cause analysis as tools to show what has caused the problem and how you ll prevent the problem from happening again. No one, especially management, wants to infuse your project budget with more dollars only to see the problem reappear over and over.
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