Containing the Pain of Scope Creep

By Regina Kwon and Anna Maria Virzi
Baseline, 3/1/2002

Doug Hubbard provides the authors with a practical example of the costs of adding one more function to software in development. The true costs are probably greater than you expect once a few categories of “hidden costs” are properly considered. [view article]

Red Light, Green Light

Case Study by Tracy Mayor, analysis by Douglas Hubbard
CIO Enterprise Magazine, 10/01/2001

A case study written by Tracy Mayor explains how GM North America uses a color-coded project status tracking method. Doug Hubbard critiques this approach the “Expert Analysis” column. While the approach gets good marks on presentation, Hubbard explains how a statistical method can be used to improve upon the analysis. [inactive link]