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Meet the Enemy of All Projects: Uncertainty

GPS PerspectivesBy Carla Gargas November 5, 2019

“You cannot predict the future, but you can prepare for it.” A recent post on LinkedIn posed this question “Why do 70% of projects fail to meet either cost, schedule or technical performance?” As of this writing there were 23 comments. They included such things as: Not using iterative methods Too much planning, not enough…

The Surprising Solution to Task Durations — Part One

GPS PerspectivesBy Rich Gargas June 10, 2018

When a GPS calculates your destination arrival time, it’s taking into account the remaining route, the speed limits and even the current traffic when adding up the individual routes and providing you a single answer. That would be great for projects too, right? Projects, however, are more difficult to forecast as tasks contains greater uncertainly…