Jerry
07-25-2006, 06:41 AM
Johanna Rothman (http://www.jrothman.com/weblog/blogger.html) has posted a good intro (http://www.ayeconference.com/Articles/RollingWave.html) to Rolling Wave Planning.
"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 always been a fan of this type of iterative, evolutionary planning but didn't realize it had a formal name.
"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 always been a fan of this type of iterative, evolutionary planning but didn't realize it had a formal name.