The Lego Gherkin and The Gherkin

The building at 30 St Mary Axe, London, is commonly known as The Gherkin.

Yesterday I was down there looking at the Sculpture in the City and saw a Lego Version of the Gherkin

This short 6 second video was taken using Vine and is of the Lego Gherkin then looking up at the building itself. 

A few photos I took of the Lego model 

Estimating the go live date in 4 lessons

Twitter provides a video option known as Vine. This allows for a six second recording which can be posted on Vine and then sent out as a Tweet. 

This blog has four embedded Vine videos which shows how you can estimate the time from project initiation to system go live (based on a business solution implementation). 

The software used to calculate the final go live date is Microsoft Project 2010. 

Lesson 1: List the Stages

First we need to list out the Project Stages. In  the PRINCE2 Methodology the first work is Project Initiation followed by one or more Stages. 

Lesson 2: Enter in elapsed durations

Next an estimate is required as to the time each Stage is likely to take. 

These are elapsed durations 

Lesson 3: Enter start date and dependencies

The Stages happen in sequential order, an indicative start date is required. 

Lesson 4: Do a quality review

Finally we should do a quality review of the calculations to see if there are clashes with other activities such as public holidays.