COMMERCE 4KF3 Lecture Notes - Planning Horizon, Function Point, Work Breakdown Structure
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Schedule work: make sure your team members can take on added work of project. Determine length of project and costs: projects can be cancelled because of lack of funds. Develop time-based budgets and establish project baseline. Planning horizon: the farther away the deadline, the more uncertainty. People: people are hard to predict, the number of people, the skills people have. Independence: plan your projects as if all of the task are separate and independent regardless of if one might get backed up. Adding risk assessment to avoid surprises: most likely scenario vs. least likely scenario. Function point methods for software and system projects. Each time the output quantity doubles, the unit labour hours are reduced at a constant rate. Studies have shown that human performance usually improves when a task is repeated. In general, performance improves by a fixed percentage each time production doubles.
