Negotiated Schedules Affect Quality and Deadlines By Michael Sheeley A while back I was at a meeting with a group of product managers from local software companies. The topic was the process of prioritizing...
Lacking Commitment By Thomas Cutting They stripped a month off my project. Okay, technically I misunderstood them when they said go-live was September. What they meant was there would be a month long parallel...
Low-Tech Scheduling for Projects is Similar to Paper Prototypes for Design By Johanna Rothman I’m not a fan of project scheduling tools. I have trouble making the tools create the schedule the way I...
Resource Levelling By David Stoneman Resource Levelling is an often hotly debated topic! To level or not to level? Perhaps this story will throw up a helpful perspective. “Review that!” Mac threw down a...
Keep Your Project From Creeping Away By Keith Mathis – PM Expert Live Delays and changes are a part of every project we do. Do we like them? Of course not. Do we have...
Impossible Schedules Reinforce No Thinking By Johanna Rothman I’ve been thinking a lot about impossible schedules. I’m talking about the project schedules that no matter how you organize the project, it’s not possible for...
Schedule Game #11: The Schedule Tool is Always Right (#11 in the series Schedule Game) By Johanna Rothman You’ve probably gathered by now that I’m not enamored of project scheduling tools. And since I...
Schedule Game #10: We’ll Know Where We Are When We Get There (#10 in the series Schedule Game) By Johanna Rothman One of my clients claimed he had ADHD. He had trouble keeping projects...
Schedule Game #9: Schedule == Commitment (#9 in the series Schedule Game) By Johanna Rothman You and I know that the schedule is an estimate. The project schedule is your best guess about when...
Schedule Game #6: Sweep Under the Rug (#6 in the series Schedule Game) By Johanna Rothman A few years ago, I received a call to help out a project in trouble. Unsurprisingly, when I...
