Learn how to manage project schedules with the skills and techniques to stay on time and hit your milestones.
Rolling wave planning, also known as progressive elaboration, is an iterative planning technique to use when it’s difficult (or pointless) to schedule too far ahead. The APM Planning, Scheduling, Monitoring and Control Guide (2015) defines rolling wave planning as ‘the planning density that is achieved at different moments in time. Primarily more detailed planning in…
Do your stakeholders ask you questions like these? Now we’ve approved the budget and the project has started, how much will it really cost? We had a big delay last month. What has that done to the budget? How much will we have spent on this work by the time this project is finished? Given…
Aaron Irizarry spoke at the Digital PM Summit about ways to cope when you have a troubled project. Here are his three ways of getting a project under control. They apply to both big and small problems.
The weather is the talk of the office. The heatwave is one good reason to work long hours – at least we have air conditioning which makes life bearable. The top temperatures are water-cooler subjects: is it 34 degrees outside or 33? Frankly it’s too hot, but it has made me realize one thing: I…
William W. Davis, forecasting superhero, joins us again to help explain project forecasting and how to make it easier.
Demystify project dependencies and constraints with this comprehensive guide. Learn why they are important and how they relate to your project.
Take a look at 3 methods to track percent complete. This is helpful information for all project managers.
Parametric estimating is a form of project estimation that works for time, resource and cost estimates. Learn more about it in this guide.
A fixed date project is one that has a defined — and often unmovable — end date for delivery. Learn how to manage fixed date projects.
In my experience, there are some very common reasons for project schedules turning out to be unreliable. Here are 5.
Last time we saw that PRINCE2 doesn’t really have much advice to offer the project manager stuck with delivering to a fixed date. I also gave you some advice from another expert, J LeRoy Ward at ESI. Surely some other project management experts have tackled this problem? I trawled my bookcase for what other people…