Description

Predictability is the degree to which a project team can accurately forecast successful project completion. Improving predictability also refers to the ability to reduce uncertainties in the project in order to increase estimation accuracy. Understanding the uncertainly in a project reduces the probability of project failure, because the team is aware of potential problems. 

Improving predictability helps the team produce a realistic plan that can be executed.  Teams that lack predictability will not be able to accurately plan their release, prioritize the features to be delivered, or determine the quality of the product. 

Strategies

The following strategies help improve Predictability:  

• Strategy: Improve Process Governance and Compliance
• • Set up a standard process that can be repeated from one project to the next
  • Mature the process to better manage development activities and forecast what needs to be done.
  • Increase ability to understand organizational performance in order to tailor, adopt and enact appropriate processes
  • Indicators
  • • No process standard across organization
    • Inconsistent adoption or no adoption
    • No criteria to understand how to tailor the process
    • No clear roles and job descriptions
    • Inability to harvest past experiences to improve the process