Estimating & Effort

Estimating the effort a job actually takes: using past work as evidence, breaking scope into pieces, and understanding why estimates run low.

Estimating & Effort

What’s the difference between cost variance and schedule variance?

November 22, 2022

Cost variance is effort: the work took more than you planned. Schedule variance is time: it ran past the calendar. A Job can blow one without the other, and firms need to watch both.

Estimating & Effort

What is the 25-15 resource planning method?

November 2, 2022

The 25-15 method is a capacity rule for small teams: plan people to a realistic ceiling of billable effort, not their full week, so meetings, admin, and the unexpected have somewhere to live.