Reply to: Current gig going slow...

[diseasex]

If you become one you wont care how long it takes

hard to stop then

[Mincepie]

I'm trying not to become an alcoholic

If you become one you wont care how long it takes

[diseasex]

Sounds like you now are

Don't rush it and mess it up; deliver right, first time. Don't over promise and under deliver. Give yourself contingency in your own estimates. If you think it will take four weeks, tell them seven and be in the pub daily well before five.

I'm trying not to become an alcoholic

[NotAllThere]

A reminder that this is in the Professional forums - if you want to take it to General.

[Bee]

Its not theory, I have delivered plenty I assure you.

You seem quite inexperienced and junior to me, I wouldn't expect you to understand.

Please read my signature.

[MrMarkyMark]

FTFY

Sounds like you now are

Don't rush it and mess it up; deliver right, first time. Don't over promise and under deliver. Give yourself contingency in your own estimates. If you think it will take four weeks, tell them seven and be in the pub daily well before five.

[Bee]

It bores me like hell :|

I think will be in that project forever...

[LondonManc]

yep. I guess as originally asked, I should learn from him.

Sounds like you now are

Don't rush it and mess it up; deliver right, first time. Don't over promise and under deliver. Give yourself contingency in your own estimates. If you think it will take four weeks, tell them six and be negotiated down to five.

[MrMarkyMark]

More theory...

We are talking about a long delay.

If you have budget, It's possible to extend the dead lines until the release date , or maintain the deadlines putting more resources, but the project will cost more money, The release date can't be extended.

The project plan deadlines must be accomplished, if not the risk must be communicate.

Its not theory, I have delivered plenty I assure you.

You seem quite inexperienced and junior to me, I wouldn't expect you to understand.

[diseasex]

Exactly. If the functionality is fixed, then budget or timescale can shift. If, in your case, the budget is fixed but huge, then clearly the timescale matters not.

It bores me like hell :|

[Bee]

that only applies to companies that care about budget ;o the one I'm in doesn't seem to care. Or the budget is so big that before we spend it it will take years.

If they don't care about the budget it's because they have a lot of money, in that case don't be worried about that.

Probably they will postpone the project for the next release or next... be calm and patient.

[LondonManc]

that only applies to companies that care about budget ;o the one I'm in doesn't seem to care. Or the budget is so big that before we spend it it will take years.

Exactly. If the functionality is fixed, then budget or timescale can shift. If, in your case, the budget is fixed but huge, then clearly the timescale matters not.

[diseasex]

More theory...

We are talking about a long delay.

If you have budget, It's possible to extend the dead lines until the release date , or maintain the deadlines putting more resources, but the project will cost more money, The release date can't be extended.

The project plan deadlines must be accomplished, if not the risk must be communicate.

that only applies to companies that care about budget ;o the one I'm in doesn't seem to care. Or the budget is so big that before we spend it it will take years.

[Bee]

Point being, you do the risks, costs and benefits analysis of; either continuing with squeezed deadlines, descoping non-priority items, extending timelines.
You then make guide the client with making the correct decision on that basis.

That's what I'm there for, if the clients knew what they were doing they wouldn't engage a seasoned specialist, like myself, in the first place.




But...................................then what would I know

More theory...

We are talking about a long delay.

If you have budget, It's possible to extend the dead lines until the release date , or maintain the deadlines putting more resources, but the project will cost more money, The release date can't be extended.

The project plan deadlines must be accomplished, if not the risk must be communicate.

[diseasex]

and you'd get paid 5*X for it whereas he's getting 60*X, he knows what he's doing

yep. I guess as originally asked, I should learn from him.