Incorporate Contingency Buffers in Your Project Schedule (#17 in the series 21 Project Management Success Tips) By Karl E. Wiegers Projects never go precisely as planned. The prudent project manager incorporates budget and schedule...
Use Project Estimation Tools (#16 in the series 21 Project Management Success Tips) By Karl E. Wiegers Many commercial tools are available to help you estimate entire projects. Based on large databases of actual...
Record Project Estimates and How You Derived Them (#15 in the series 21 Project Management Success Tips) By Karl E. Wiegers When you prepare estimates for your work, write down those estimates and document...
Build Training Time Into The Schedule (#14 in the series 21 Project Management Success Tips) By Karl E. Wiegers Estimate how much time your team members spend on training activities annually, and subtract that...
Don’t Schedule Multitasking People for More Than 80 Percent of Their Time (#13 in the series 21 Project Management Success Tips) By Karl E. Wiegers The task-switching overhead associated with the many activities we...
Plan to Do Rework After a Quality Control Activity (#9 in the series 21 Project Management Success Tips) By Karl E. Wiegers I’ve seen project task lists in which the author assumed that every...
Decompose Tasks to Inch-pebble Granularity (#7 in the series 21 Project Management Success Tips) By Karl E. Wiegers Decompose tasks to inch-pebble granularity. Inch-pebbles are miniature milestones (get it?). Breaking large tasks into multiple...
Identify Project Drivers, Constraints, and Degrees of Freedom (#3 in the series 21 Project Management Success Tips) By Karl E. Wiegers Every project must balance its functionality, staffing, cost, schedule, and quality objectives [Wiegers,...
