Latest posts about Scheduling
Showing page #1. Displaying items 1 through to 20 of 57...

While doing some research for a new engagement on a DoD program, I came across a paper on the Work Breakdown Structure from a PMI Global conference. Applying the Work Breakdown Structure to the Project Lifecycle. The paper provides a good o...(more)


Scheduling Project Management Tasks
By Kathlika Thomas
A detailed schedule is one of the best tools that a project manager can have. By scheduling yourself in advance to do all of the necessary management tasks, you stay much more organized...(more)
post info
share
comment
Mentions:
scheduling

Project Manager vs. Product Marketer - Who Is Going To Win?
By Anna Korlyakova
Marketing and project management have as always been seen as separate disciplines, each having developed separately from the other.
Project Managers typically ar...(more)
post info
share
comment
Mentions:
scheduling

Experts say that up to 90% of a project manager’s time is spent on communication either with stakeholders, project team, suppliers or upper management within the organization. That volume speaks about the importance of communication to an...(more)
post info
share
comment
Mentions:
Integration Management
scheduling

"volatility per se, be it related to weather, timing of the morning newspaper, is simply a benign statistical probability factor that tells us nothing about risk until it is coupled with a consequence," - Robert H. Jeffrey, "A New Paradigm ...(more)

When someone tells me they have a schedule, they have a budget, they’ve got a set of requirements. One starting response is:Are these schedules, budgets, and requirements credible?What are the units of measure of credible? How would w...(more)
post info
share
comment
Mentions:
scheduling
Critical Path

The standard approach to project taskl duration estimating is the PMBOK® 3 point estimate. Josh has provided several approaches to the discussion of the issues.The top two issues are:The anchoring and adjusting error occur when humans make...(more)

The most successful method of "project controls" is Earned Value Management (EVM). There are 32 criteria for a fully compliance Earned Value System in the government contracting world. But these 32 criteria are not needed for success when a...(more)

I can’t tell you number of times I’ve looked at an IT schedule that had zero (0) margin. In the space and defense this is simply not allowed. Margin and the management of margin is mandated by several guidance documents.Why it i...(more)
post info
share
comment
Mentions:
scheduling

Project Management Tips has a contributor, Dana Larson, who posted about features needed in Project Management Software. These include:CollaborationTask SchedulingMultiple-Level OrganizationFile Storage and SharingTime Tracking and Reportin...(more)
post info
share
comment
Mentions:
scheduling

Most project managers are well-versed at decomposition. Project managers are trained to break down complex deliverables into smaller and more manageable parts. These parts then serve as a foundation for costing, scheduling and control. As m...(more)
post info
share
comment
Mentions:
scheduling
deliverables

Michael Hatfield conjectured that once the baseline schedule is established, risk management is just institutional worrying. I’m here to tell you that just ain’t the case on any real program. Institutional worrying sounds like a...(more)

Are You a Micro Project Manager?
Gil Junqueira
Most project managers are well-versed at decomposition. Project managers are trained to break down complex deliverable(s) into smaller and more manageable parts. These parts then serve as a fou...(more)
post info
share
comment
Mentions:
scheduling
deliverables

Michael Hatfield conjectured that once the baseline schedule is established, risk management is just institutional worrying. I’m here to tell you that just ain’t the case on any real program. Institutional worrying sounds like a...(more)

A Project Scheduling Primer
By Steven DeSomer
Introduction
There are some very basic concepts that must be understood before Project Management can be successful. Success, in this instance, is defined as:
Finishing Projects On Time
Finishi...(more)
post info
share
comment
Mentions:
scheduling

"An important source of bad decisions is illusions of certainty"
- Kenneth Boulding, The Value of UncertaintyTechnical Risk Sources†Requirement Definition and Dissemination Design Maturity, Complexity, and Technology Readiness Verificati...(more)


Kiron D. Bondale posted about the Seven Deadly Sins of project scheduling. After you read this very useful post here’s my experience of putting this advice to work in ways you’d see if you were on the site of one of our defense ...(more)

Seven Deadly Sins of Scheduling
By Kiron D. Bondale
Something I’ve taken for granted is a project manager’s ability to create and maintain a project schedule. The reality is that most “accidental” project managers spend at least as ...(more)
post info
share
comment
Mentions:
scheduling
Showing page #1. Displaying items 1 through to 20 of 57...


