I'm sure this has never happened to you, but have you ever heard of a software project that after several months of development was about to go into production, and then the schedule was put back by half a year?
How is it possible for estimates on delivery times to be so wildly inaccurate?
The answer is simple; Human beings don't always tell the truth.
At Bindon.net we have a radical approach to software project management. No, we are not planning to turn the whole thing over to robots, and program them so they never tell any Porkies. Although, that's coming, I'm sure.
Instead what we do is open up the whole project process so as to make it transparent to the client what is happening on a daily, even hourly basis.
Transparent Software Project Management.