Chapter 2. Establishing the Project
Successful projects are like good directions—they have step-by-step instructions on how to get from your origin to the destination. A good foundation with an efficient, lightweight, set standard work practice, aids greatly in the success of a project and establishes an effective project delivery methodology. This chapter has recipes to set up the project delivery phases for a consistent way to deliver, manage, and estimate the efforts for a project. Recipes include:
Creating Definition work practice
Creating Data Discovery work practice
Creating Development work practice
Creating Testing work practice
Creating Promote work practice
Creating Production work practice
Building a standard work breakdown structure
Identifying and quantifying the effort drivers
Creating your estimation tool
Introduction
This chapter explores the recipes designed to show you how to build repeatable phases for your project with standard tasks. Once you have the standard tasks, you are in...
