Last week I got involved in a project and while I was studying the scheduled dates for the project I remember the Lean concept that says: Managing Workflow is a lot easier than Managing Schedules . Managment people like the idea of managing dates for a project, and they have a false-positive impression that this is enough to set the base for a project, i.e., the project should be build on top of it. I agree that this is the starting point, but this is not enough. We need a workflow in place to be able to delivery a reliable project. This workfow should be repeated during the project and improved to suite the project reality. All the people involved in the project should be able to see the current status of each task in the workflow and see the results of each task in the end of the workflow. Some examples of workflow can be: Analysis -> Development -> Control Quality -> Integration or Ready to development -> Development-> Test or Whatever is suitable to your project. A v...
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