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The Planning Fallacy Needs Old Projects

A team can spend hours on a website migration's ideal schedule. The project is easy to picture in its clean, intended order — that picture makes the forecast too optimistic.

Start instead from what 5 similar migrations actually took, including the ordinary testing, approval, and integration delays that plans soften.

That may push the date later. Then adjust. The question is what usually happens to plans like this one — not how perfect it looks.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

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