No matter what development process you're using, how you're measuring progress to plan, or how you interact with the customer, all successful project must start with 5 immutable principles.
So when it is said for example, EV is "hog wash," for IT projects, we'll need to find some method that can account for the performance of the work effort that is based on units of measure meaningful to the decision makers. This is most often measured in Dollars.
So we'll need to come up with a measurement process that compares our budgeted cost with the "value" earned from the investment of that budget. With this information, we'll need to forecast an important measures for those accountable for this budget. Those interested in the "real" aspects of the project...
- How much will this cost when we're done?
- When will we be done?
Can't answer questions like this, you're probably not actually "managing" the project. You're developing software that's for sure. But they're not the same.
To credibly address the 5 Immutable Principles, there are 11 practices.
Each of these 11 practices needs to produce some tangible evidence that they are being applied. This evidence is the data produced from the practice or artifacts produced after the practice is applied.
