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The Work Breakdown Structure

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Indexed  August 22, 2010
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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)
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Watching Dogs Eat Spaghetti

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Indexed  August 15, 2010
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That’s a good description of what schedules look like when they are assembled in the absence of any program architecture. This architecture is of course best built using the Integrated Master Plan (IMP) paradigm.Without going into the...(more)
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Scheduling Project Management Tasks

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Indexed  August 13, 2010
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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)
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Project Manager Vs. Product Marketer - Who Is Going To Win?

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Indexed  August 12, 2010
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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)
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Project Management With Google Wave

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Indexed  August 5, 2010
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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)
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Volatility Fails As A Proxy For Risk

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Indexed  July 30, 2010
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"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)
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What Does A Credible Schedule Look Like?

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Indexed  July 23, 2010
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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)
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Let’s End "old School" Estimating

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Indexed  July 19, 2010
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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)
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Elements Of Project Controls

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Indexed  July 17, 2010
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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)
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Schedule Margin

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Indexed  May 31, 2010
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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)
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Task Dependencies

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Indexed  May 14, 2010
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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)
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Are You A Micro Project Manager?

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Indexed  May 2, 2010
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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)
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Why Risk Analysis Is A Continuous Process

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Indexed  April 27, 2010
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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)
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Are You A Micro Project Manager?

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Indexed  April 27, 2010
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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)
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Why Risk Analysis Is A Continuous Process

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Indexed  April 23, 2010
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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)
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A Project Scheduling Primer

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Indexed  April 19, 2010
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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)
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Quote Of The Day

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Indexed  April 7, 2010
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"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)
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Probability V. Statistics In Cost And Schedule

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Indexed  March 28, 2010
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There’s a popular myth that says project process can’t forecast the future. This is literally not a correct statement, since this phrase leaves out the confidence with which the future is being forecast.Add to the counter argume...(more)
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Seven Deadly Sins Of Project Scheduling

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Indexed  March 25, 2010
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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)
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Seven Deadly Sins Of Scheduling

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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)
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