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...
Include Reference Information to Explain Symbols and Acronyms (#7 in the seris Effective Planning for Big Projects) By Timothy Prosser First a disclaimer: I don’t claim to be the world’s expert on project management,...
Critical Chain Method/CCM of Project Planning and Control By Dr.Russell Archibald The critical chain method has emerged in the past few years and is embraced by some practitioners as a significant advance in the...
Defining the Decision Points (Milestones) By Dr.Russell Archibald Key decision points (events or milestones) occur at the start and end of each phase or sub-phase. They may also occur within any of the life...
Point Estimates and Project Management By Rich Maltzman, PMP Sometimes Project Managers just don’t get the point. And in this case, that’s a good thing. Mind you, I’m not referring to “getting the point”...
To Do More, You Have to Do Less By Mike Boyer Smith Things always get done more effectively when you focus on them, but there are just so many things that you have to...
Milestone Planning and Criteria By Johanna Rothman Effective project managers and software engineers understand that a general approach of Requirements planning Feature definition (leading to feature freeze) Design and implementation (leading to code freeze)...
Milestone Definitions for Software Projects By Johanna Rothman This set of milestones is useful for defining software project schedules: Milestone Criteria Feature freeze The date when all required features are known and the detailed...
Managing The Project Time – Conclusion (#5 in the series Managing the Project Time) By Joseph Phillips If time management were easy, everyone would do it. The biggest input to effective time management is...
The Fine Art of Scheduling – The Format of Project Schedules – Gantt charts (#32 in the Hut A Project Management Primer) By Nick Jenkins Why the fine “art” of scheduling? If it were...
