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What “done” can be defined.

By Eugenio, on July 29th, 2009

Where to cut

In my post, following a thread created by Craig Brown and developed by Glen Allen, I closed it confessing my difficult to offer a clean definition of what can be defined as “done”. In my mind there is the “Prince2” definition that sounds:

“Everything that has passed the tests based on stately accepted [...]

Milestones and risk management

By Eugenio, on July 27th, 2009

Titanic in dock

Thanks Craig. You got right about the need for frequent and more specialized controls.

By the way, originally “milestones” (in the Roman roads) were set every mile (0.91% of the Imperial mile). Every day-long leg (15-18 miles) there were structures serving both passengers (divided by categories) and animals. An interesting point was that [...]