They did sound over-simplistic on the interview this morning - Do you think any supplier with half a brain would sign up for a fixed price/time contract for a health service payroll system, for example?Leo said:Certainly haven't heard of any of those either, and I've just gone through the PMP certification. One quote from the book RTE highlighted that would worry me is "She says a company should always agree a fixed time and fixed price basis for a project, this will share the risk and forces a very strict change management culture."
Standard triple constraint in project management involves time, cost, & quality. Fix the first two and guess what's going to suffer?
Leo
ClubMan said:See this RTÉ link. For what it's worth two other standard tomes on this issue are (were?) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1556154844/104-2051128-3116710?v=glance (Code Complete) and http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/ref=br_ss_hs/104-2051128-3116710?platform=gurupa&url=index%3Dstripbooks%3Arelevance-above%26dispatch%3Dsearch%26results-process%3Dbin&field-keywords=mythical+man+month&Go.x=0&Go.y=0&Go=Go (The Mythical Man Month). Naturally, as a s/w developer of almost 20 years, I have never read any of them!