One thing I noticed quite early on was that we had these project plans which were out of date almost as soon as we started and got worse as time went on. We had a massive requirements document which was out of date. There were also test plans which actually got written after the fact; they weren’t supposed to be, but most people did that because it made logical sense to them. The other thing I noticed was that the date and the time from when a project was first claimed to be complete to when it actually was actually printed onto a CD varied from six weeks to, in one case, 18 months.
I was quite interested in the idea of doing small projects that could be more contained because the theory was that any over run or under run, should there be any, or at I thought at the time, would be proportional to the length of the project. So if you do shorter projects, the over run is more controllable. But at least it would expose it to the decision-makers and they could decide whether something was off.
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