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Will You Add? - Project Management - Preventing Project Slips
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The case surrounding derivative activities is well documented here or on The Project Mangler (www.pr
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Ask a techie to come up with a schedule for a specific list of activities, and more often than not, he/she will present a fairly accurate estimate. Some activities might be underestimated, others overestimated, but overall, the plan will be fairly accurate.
However, something happens to these estimates between the time the techie writes them down and the time the Project Manager publishes a baseline project schedule. That “something” is why projects slip.
Projects tend to slip for two reasons. Either Project Managers don’t account for derivative activities such as vacation days when planning the overall project schedule, or they simply succumb to the pressure from management to compress the schedule.
The case surrounding derivative activities is well documented here or on The Project Mangler (www.pro
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However, something happens to these estimates between the time the techie writes them down and the time the Project Manager publishes a baseline project schedule. That “something” is why projects slip.
Projects tend to slip for two reasons. Either Project Managers don’t account for derivative activities such as vacation days when planning the overall project schedule, or they simply succumb to the pressure from management to compress the schedule.
The case surrounding derivative activities is well documented here or on The Project Mangler (www.pr
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Projects tend to slip for two reasons. Either Project Managers don’t account for derivative activities such as vacation days when planning the overall project schedule, or they simply succumb to the pressure from management to compress the schedule.
The case surrounding derivative activities is well documented here or on The Project Mangler (www.pr
First off, you need to understand that everything they want to know about you is in just 4 key areas:• Why are you here?• What can you do for us?• What sort of person are you?• Can we afford you?So you must get yourself prepared for this. Examine each one of these areas and you can be (perhaps) even better prepared than the interviewer you face.Managers don’t account for derivative activities such as vacation days when planning the overall project schedule, or they simply succumb to the pressure from management to compress the schedule.
The case surrounding derivative activities is well documented here or on The Project Mangler (www.pr
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The case surrounding derivative activities is well documented here or on The Project Mangler (www.projectmangler.com), so I won’t spend any more time on it. The case surrounding management pressure is not.
Management Pressure
Assuming your techies have estimated each task and that you’ve considered derivative activities, your project schedule should be accurate. Aggressive, but realistic.
Now, present this schedule to the management team, and 8 times out of 10, the feedback you’ll get is “that’s too late”. Eight times out of ten, you’ll be asked to revise the schedule and shorten it.
Project Managers are all too familiar with the project triangle. We know we can shorten a schedule by either (a) reducing the scope of the project, or (b) adding more resources to it. Unfortunately, management either hasn’t seen that triangle or, more likely
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