How to Achieve the Most Important Requirement

摘要

The most important requirement for most projects is time - time for completion.rnStill, most projects are late. Isn’t it weird that projects apparently judge all other requirementsrnmore important than the requirement of time while time is one of the most importantrnrequirements? Both Project Management (responsible for the project) and SystemsrnEngineering (responsible for the product) are responsible for the consequences of ignoring thisrnimportant requirement. This paper describes why it is important to be on time, what measuresrnwe can take to make sure we are on time (and which often applied intuitive measures don’trnwork!), and how we can use Evolutionary Planning techniques to make sure that we will be onrntime, or, if that is simply impossible, to take the consequence. These techniques allow us in thernearly stages of our project to predict and to optimize what will be ready at a certain time.rnNote - This is not a scientific paper but rather based on empirical evidence collected byrncoaching over 100 projects in the past 8 years.