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Category Archives: interim milestone
Crossing the Desert Syndrome
I’m close to falling into “Crossing the Desert” syndrome. A project team focuses on an interim milestone, works like the devil to meet that milestone. They meet the milestone, look up, and realize they’re not at the end of … Continue reading
Attempting to Define Maintenance
I’ve had several discussions about maintenance in the past few days. I’m beginning to think I have a different definition of maintenance than other people do :-). For me, maintenance is fixing problems in code. Maintenance is short, small, … Continue reading
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Milestones and Handoffs
James’ comment and Eric’s comment asked good questions about why I differentiate between milestones and handoffs. Milestones can be a collection of events (handoffs) that culminate in one milestone. Let’s take the milestone “code freeze” or “code complete.” The … Continue reading
Handoffs: The Reasons Behind Interim Milestones in Schedules
In the last couple of years, I’ve worked with some project managers who thought the reason they made schedules was to know when the milestones would be met. They thought if they knew when “design complete” or “feature freeze” … Continue reading
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