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 Producing Schedules.

 How to Make Project Management Work in

Your Company ?

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 WBS to do yard project

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 Arrow diagram to do yard project

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 Calculate project duration ( Longest Path )

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 When two or more activities precede another
activity, the earliest time when that activity
can be started is the larger of the durations
of the activities preceding it.

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 Calculating Early Start-Early Finish

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 When doing backward-pass calculations,
always use the smallest number of LS as the
LF of previous activities.

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 Calculating Late Start-Late Finish

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 Why Bar Chart ?

• The people doing the work will find it much

easier to understand.

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 Arrow Diagram

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 Bar Chart

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 Schedule with resources Overloaded

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 We can use float of activity C until resources
are available

time-critical
resource
leveling

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 Schedule with resources Overloaded

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 We can use adjust activity C until resources
are available

resource-
critical
leveling

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Game!

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Break!

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 Companies should reward people for
practicing the best methods and, if necessary,
fire them when they do not.

 It helps to have the entire team trained in the

basics.

 Team members need training in

understanding project management tools.

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 Senior management should have a brief
overview of the principles so that it knows
what it is realistic to expect.

 After the training is complete, pick a project

that already has a pretty high probability of
success—don’t pick your hardest job.

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 Practice a lot of MBWA (management by
walking around) as the project progresses,
but do it to be helpful, not in the blame and-
punishment mode.

 Do process reviews to learn and to try to

improve whenever possible.

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 Be very proactive ,not reactive. Take the lead.

 Have team members make presentations to

senior management on their part of the job.
Give them credit for their contributions.

 You should pay special attention to critical

path activities.

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 Track similar companies that applies
successful management methodologies.

 Have individuals take responsibility for being

champions.

 Join the Project Management Institute, attend

meetings, and learn more about project
management from other professionals.

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 You should ignore resource limitations when
you begin developing a schedule. If two tasks
can logically be done in parallel, draw them
that way.

 The critical path is the one that is longest and

has no float. Note that you can have a project
with a longest path that is not critical because
it has float.

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 Nobody is available to do productive work
more than 80 percent of a workday. You lose
20 percent to personal time, fatigue, and
delays.

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Any Questions ?