The Schedule – Resource Leveling

“Happy people plan actions, they don’t plan results.”                                                                                                                 – Dennis Wholey We are nearing the end of the series on scheduling basics.  We have taken the WBS, added the dependency chain, estimated the effort and assigned resources.  The next step to completing the well-formed schedule is to level the …

The Schedule – Estimate Task Effort

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it;  and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”                                                                                                                                 – Marcus Aurelius As we progress through this series on the well-formed schedule, we have …

The Project Manager’s Cycle – Check Variances and Productivity

“Kevin, I see that for the Architectural Strategy Document, your task to track down all of the legacy systems we interface to is falling behind.  What’s going on?” The next activity in The Project Manager’s Cycle takes as input the revised schedule from the replanning and rescheduling activity.  For this …