Pinyarat explained, “The estimates were basically impossible. The activity durations
got squeezed down to less than the 50 percent guideline. We were late on
nearly every task. In addition, I was not allowed to put in a big enough project
buffer, which only added to projects being late. One colleague who was working
on six projects gave up and quit; he said he was killing himself and saw no hope of
things getting better. My projects are not the only ones having big problems. Some
people had no idea why anyone would use CCPM scheduling. To quote one of my
best programmers: ‘They ask for an estimate and then they cut it 50 percent or
more. What kind of game is this? Apparently they don’t trust us