I will be hitting you soon with a great series about the use of metaphors and examples to explain project management concepts.

To warm you up, my column at TechTarget: Estimating actual project progress.

"I wish that everyone who is involved in projects finally gets the fact that just spending hours or money has nothing to do with actually making progress."

"I have thought about it for a while, and I finally come up with a way to explain this to managers. I tried shouting. I tried slapping. But I settled for something they recognize, an image they see the entire day during work hours (when they are "researching on the Internet"): The download progress bar."