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2. Brooks's law - Wikipedia

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   Brooks's law is an observation about software project management that "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later." [1] [2] It was coined by Fred Brooks in his 1975 book The Mythical Man-Month. According to Brooks, under certain conditions, an incremental person when added to a project makes it take more, not less time.

3. The Mythical Man-Month - Wikipedia

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   Brooks discusses several causes of scheduling failures. The most enduring is his discussion of Brooks's law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. Man-month is a hypothetical unit of work representing the work done by one person in one month; Brooks's law says that the possibility of measuring useful work in man-months is a myth, and is hence the centerpiece of the book.

4. Duration (project management) - Wikipedia

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   Duration of a project's terminal element is the number of calendar periods it takes from the time the execution of element starts to the moment it is completed.. Duration should not be confused with work. E.g. it takes three days for a snail-mail letter to arrive at point B from point A, whereas the work put into mailing it may be 0.5 hours.

5. Timeboxing - Wikipedia

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   That is, it's usually important to meet deadlines. Risk factors for missed deadlines can include complications upstream of the project, planning errors within the project, team-related issues, or faulty execution of the plan. Upstream issues might include changes in project mission or backing/support from management.

6. Man-hour - Wikipedia

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   A man-hour or human-hour is the amount of work performed by the average worker in one hour. [1] [2] It is used for estimation of the total amount of uninterrupted labor required to perform a task. For example, researching and writing a college paper might require eighty man-hours, while preparing a family banquet from scratch might require ten ...

7. Schedule (project management) - Wikipedia

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   The project schedule is a calendar that links the tasks to be done with the resources that will do them. It is the core of the project plan used to show the organization how the work will be done, commit people to the project, determine resource needs, and used as a kind of checklist to make sure that every task necessary is performed.

8. Small-scale project management - Wikipedia

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   Small-scale project management is the specific type of project management of small-scale projects.These projects are characterised by factors such as short duration; low person hours; small team; size of the budget and the balance between the time committed to delivering the project itself and the time committed to managing the project.

9. Budgeted cost of work performed - Wikipedia

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   Budgeted cost of work performed (BCWP) also called earned value (EV), is the budgeted cost of work that has actually been performed in carrying out a scheduled task during a specific time period. [1] The BCWP is the sum of the budgets for completed work packages and completed portions of open work packages, plus the applicable portion of the ...