Without the data, people will still push on them to attempt more than what they can do. A significant number of the participants thought their job was to teach the other person what to do. In this phase, I need hours at a time to blast away at a chapter until there's little enough of it left so I can write it in spurts.
Holidays and NBA schedules . I made more progress yesterday, and hope to do more writing this afternoon, after I take care of other little things.
I was stunned to think that anyone would think an email notification of a layoff was acceptable.
I explained that I had a slim chance of being done by mid-October, and a stronger chance of being done at Thanksgiving. And my headache was gone because of the local.
Give yourself enough of a contingency plan to deal with them. You can use probabilistic scheduling to help you, the project team, and your sponsors see the risk in the schedule.
You just can't tell what. I have no idea how far along I am. And they rest of the organization remembers how long it took to finish the last project.
Keith and Dale are tracking their writing with spreadsheets.
If you're working in an agile lifecycle, your velocity will self-correct.
A significant number of the participants thought their job was to teach the other person what to do. "Because if they find it in this iteration, they want to add it to the next iteration, if not this iteration. If I miss mid-October, I have no writing time until almost the middle of November. After that, you can apply any of a number of noise removal, EQ, and other audio quality enhancement filters.
I'd say great, but these are old cassette tapes we're talking about as the source material, so I'd be lying if I said they sounded anything better than reasonable.
Called the doctor, breathing through the pain, was told, "Go to the ER. Once people can see complete work out of the project team, they have some assurance the team will actually deliver something and can watch for more deliverables.
To be honest, an afternoon of lost work is not the big a deal in the scheme of things.
But that's because you're barely making progress as is. Give yourself enough of a contingency plan to deal with them.
They either have unfinished stories or accumulated technical debt.