Tuesday 28 October 2008

Project velocity

There is a software project management tool called a velocity chart. It shows project progress by tracking the number of features completed, remaining and in total over time. If the project is progressing well, the velocity chart can even give a rough estimate of the time it will be complete. Yesterday I produced such a chart for our project:

These lines indicate an approximate finish date of never, which is not a good state to be in. If that blue line never starts going down again, we will be stuck doing this one project forever, or at least until someone cancels it. Personally I'd rather get it finished than cancelled.

Mokalus of Borg

PS - Today we will try to cut our features list down.
PPS - Then hopefully there will be an end in sight.

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