Project Management
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Thursday, January 31st, 2008Now that you have your work breakdown structure, what do you do? This is when you get into Project Time Management. Project Time Management includes the processes required to accomplish timely completion of the project (PMBOK 123). There is a flow that should be followed to help you figure out what and when you should [...]
Developing the Work Breakdown Structure
Saturday, January 19th, 2008The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) gives us a description of what work needs to be done to complete the project. The WBS is in the form of a hierarchical diagram. As you traverse down the levels, more detail is provided on the work. In the WBS you have two types of work items called an [...]
Fundamental Principles of Project Management
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008R. Max Wideman wrote an article, Fundamental Principles of Project Management. It is interesting because he shows how fundamentals and practices differ. The article tells us that there is a lot of literature on how to do project management better but hardly any on the fundamental principles. He defines what a principle is and what [...]
Project Initiation - Business Case
Sunday, December 9th, 2007A project should only be taken on by organizations if they add value. Basically you want to ensure the benefits exceed the cost in doing the project. There is a cost to all projects and that cost is employees. If we decide to do a project that project must have man hours set against it. [...]
Capable work performance
Friday, December 7th, 2007How much project work can someone do in one week? Some senior management think that a 40 hour work week means we can get 40 hours of work from our employee. In an IT shop this is not going to happen. Even in manufacturing you cannot get 40 hours of work from an employee.
Let’s say [...]