http://www.thomaslindqvist.com/blogg/featured/predicting-the-future-is-dabbling-with-the-black-arts Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:10:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.thomaslindqvist.com/blogg/featured/predicting-the-future-is-dabbling-with-the-black-arts/comment-page-1#comment-33 Is your project a failure? | Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:01:57 +0000 http://www.thomaslindqvist.com/blogg/?p=291#comment-33 [...] Anyway, all three parameters involved in the project triangle are uncertainties to be delivered in a very change-prone place called the future. So we are asked to bring out the old crystal ball and look into this future. And if this advanced guess-work turns out to be less than accurate, we call our project a failure. Let me rephrase that for the sake of clarity: the failure lies in us not guessing well enough. Isn’t that weird? Sure, there are techniques for estimating, often based on past performance, such as measuring team velocity or average cycle time, but even so that’s past performance (history) and we are headed into the unknown (the future). I have previously made my feeling about his clear. [...] [...] Anyway, all three parameters involved in the project triangle are uncertainties to be delivered in a very change-prone place called the future. So we are asked to bring out the old crystal ball and look into this future. And if this advanced guess-work turns out to be less than accurate, we call our project a failure. Let me rephrase that for the sake of clarity: the failure lies in us not guessing well enough. Isn’t that weird? Sure, there are techniques for estimating, often based on past performance, such as measuring team velocity or average cycle time, but even so that’s past performance (history) and we are headed into the unknown (the future). I have previously made my feeling about his clear. [...]

]]> http://www.thomaslindqvist.com/blogg/featured/predicting-the-future-is-dabbling-with-the-black-arts/comment-page-1#comment-21 Thomas Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:36:17 +0000 http://www.thomaslindqvist.com/blogg/?p=291#comment-21 I did indeed! The scientific study of the history of religions, to be more precise. :) I did indeed! The scientific study of the history of religions, to be more precise.

]]> http://www.thomaslindqvist.com/blogg/featured/predicting-the-future-is-dabbling-with-the-black-arts/comment-page-1#comment-20 stinkbugprod Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:33:52 +0000 http://www.thomaslindqvist.com/blogg/?p=291#comment-20 Ha ha ha and you studied religion. Ha ha ha and you studied religion.

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