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'Transparent' Software Development Planning
One of the key tenets of project management methodology is based on the idea that a governance model should be in place to ensure a project will ultimately implement successfully. The project management profession has subsequently modeled tools to govern a project such as issues and risk logs, communication plans and project charters, to name a few. The second task as a profession should be ensuring all tools are utilized on a consistent basis in order to govern projects.
One key component in applying a governance model in an IT project is capacity planning. That being said, capacity planning has not been widely recognized or professed as a "must have" before a project can start. When a team is preparing to kick off a project, risk management might be completed within a number of hours, for instance. Individuals are assigned to projects without a thorough understanding of the true capacity or skill sets needed across all project phases.
Projects are ultimately won or lost based on decisions made early in the project lifecycle. Wrong decisions on a project will cost more to correct during later phases. Capacity planning will ultimately allow for a balanced relationship between the prioritized requirements dictated by the business and scope size that can be effectively managed. This balanced relationship, where business has early exposure to potential scope-size and IT …
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