Starting with Rolling Wave Planning

Starting with Rolling Wave Planning:

Some project managers considering moving to iterative, incremental,

or agile lifecycles, stumble when it comes time to move to rolling

wave planning. They aren’t sure how to start it, how to continue it,

or how to see where the project is without using a more traditional

Gantt chart and planning the whole project in advance. But for me,

it was the easiest practice to start, because I knew the Gantt chart

was the one way the project would not happen. No matter how

good the project team’s estimate was, some events would prevent

them from completing the project the way they originally estimated.

A rolling wave plan is a continuous detailed schedule that’s only a

few weeks long. As you complete one week of detailed schedule,

you add another week to the end of the schedule. With a four-

week rolling wave schedule, I never have less than four weeks of

detailed schedule, and I never have more than four weeks of

detailed schedule.

I’ve been doing some snooping into Agile and Agile-like practices, and I’m really starting to like it.

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