54. Determining weights

We were in the middle of execution when I started explaining the weights and asked you to adjust them. Normally, weights are set at the beginning and not in the middle of the work.

P3pper uses relative weights; natural numbers between 0 and 65535. You can start with one of the largest deliverables and give it a number like 100, and then compare everything else to that deliverable and give them a suitable number; more or less similar to story points in adaptive projects.

Some people are too obsessed with weights, because weights impact progress, and progress is what you show to the customer. Don’t be worried about that, though, because weights impact both the actual and the planned progress. Just a rough relative value for weight would be fine.

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Table of contents

01. Creating a user account
02. The blank slate!
03. The first organization
04. The organization page
05. Missing description!
06. Your life...
07. Describing a company
08. Adding the first portfolio
09. Creating a new project
10. Describing the project
11. Setting the start date of the project
12. Setting the duration
13. Adding the second project
14. Navigating items
15. The breadcrumb
16. Identifying deliverables
17. Adding deliverables
18. Adding the remaining deliverables
19. Adding multiple items
20. Importing mind maps
21. Deleting items
22. Adding dependencies
23. Checking the dependencies
24. Going deeper!
25. Going into the details
26. Duration of parents
27. Too much detail?
28. Improvising!
29. Setting durations
30. Small deliverables
31. Moving on...
32. Multiple dependencies
33. Breaking down the training program
34. Adding an event
35. All the past projects
36. Improvisation, again!
37. Dynamic scope items
38. Symbols for item types
39. Adding stakeholders
40. Access level 7
41. Higher level access
42. Multiple levels of access
43. Custodians
44. Finishing the initial plan
45. Plan for this month
46. The tracking section
47. Updating status
48. More about status
49. Adjusting actual dates
50. The next month
51. Progress
52. Forecasts
53. Weights
54. Determining weights
55. Two months later
56. The problem
57. A risk
58. Navigating follow-up actions
59. Closing follow-up items
60. Too many follow-up items
61. Too many tracking items?
62. Progress of dynamic-scope items
63. External dependencies
64. External dependencies without access
65. DONE!