Category Archives: rollingwave

When You Don’t Need a Schedule

I’m particular about two things: calling a prose plan a project plan and calling a Gantt chart (or yellow stickies) a schedule. One of my colleagues emailed me last week, explaining he’d spent a week developing a project plan and … Continue reading

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Starting With Rolling Wave Planning

  Also this week, over at the AYE Conference, my Starting With Rolling Wave Planning is up.

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Spending Time With the Schedule or the People?

  In one of my classes earlier this week, one project manager explained that he spent an entire day each week working the Gantt chart in a scheduling tool. He has a project of roughly 20 developers, a few testers, … Continue reading

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Rolling Wave Planning

  Sometimes I discover that one of my great ideas has already been discovered by other people :-) I first wrote about rolling wave planning in 1997. For those of you who can’t stomach the paper (it was one of … Continue reading

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