I do agree with Bill Ducan and wish to add a few words that may help others. I was using PRIMAVERA for may years in fact I started using when Primavera was for...
... Max's book is not too bad as a starting point. But I believe that both Amazon and Barnes & Noble (www.bn.com) offer it for less than the PMI member price. ...
... I prefer to see the EFFORT estimated BEFORE the time or duration. In my experience, people who estimate time/duration first have a tendency to back into...
Hi Duncan (happy new year!), I understand your views about encouraging the effort before time. I'd like to incorporate this into my wizards. But what is...
... Tien -- Nothing sophisticated. I just add days to a date field. For example, adding 30 to "January 2" will produce a result of "February 1." Since most of...
... Scott -- Effort is "work," but again, the formula that you show confuses input with output -- duration should be to the left of the equals sign while ...
Thanks Bill, What I am trying to get at is how do you expect someone to answer with an "Effort" or "Work" amount without giving a time response. You say...
Ah, the fun of estimating. When I'm after effort estimates, I stick to the words "person hours" -- a bit verbose to be sure, but it does help. Also, I ask...
... I snipped Scott's commentary, not because I thought it wasn't useful and interesting (for me, it was), but because I thought that I could provide a crisper...
In response to my posting regarding estimating ID time, Bill Duncan said: >>I prefer to see the EFFORT estimated BEFORE the time or duration. In my experience,...
... What I wonder is how well worker/estimators are capable of providing effort estimates. The fact that most such folks live and work in environments rife ...
... In my experience, they become quite good at it quite quickly once the process is explained, and once they are comfortable that their estimates will not be...
Adding the Michael, Here's my reading list http://www.niwotridge.com/Books/RiskMgmtBooks.htm. The hall book is probably the best one of the bunch. The SEI risk...
Fellow project managers, Has anyone included a project team member solely for the purpose of "keeping them in the loop" and "gaining input"? Setting: A project...
Hi!, I agree with your idea. I'd keep them "in the loop," but I'd do this through regular communications/updates, (email, meetings if absolutely necessary)...
Don Shapiro
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Jan 8, 2003 10:43 pm
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Hi All, I'm going to handle a Maintenance & Operation Project for about 1000 villas, two water treatment plant and two sewer treatment plant. The team work is...
elizabeth.gray@c... wrote:>> Labor is certainly a stakeholder, but I don't see any reason to include them on the project team, unless they have a specific role...
Dear Liz, May I add the following: If yours is a large organisation, the various organisational units could be more specialised unlike a smaller organisations....
Michael commented: <<The PMBOK's definition of "stakeholder" is "Individuals and organizations who are actively involved in the project or whose interests may...
Dear Liz, Team membership is dependent on functional needs. If the bottomline is whether to include the Union Reps in the Project Team, you may wish to ask the...
Dear Liz, You may wish to ask what sort of things that the Union might be interested in. Let me try and list out a few: a. Any resulting staff retrenchment or...
Hi All, I'm looking for earning an on-line Master Degree toward PhD in Project Management. I hope to finish the Master Degree within only a year through an...
Is there anyone studied at Johns Hopkins University Part-time MS in Systems Engineering(Previously Project Management) program? I would like to get some...
Hello, I thought I'd briefly chime-in on the issue of KIDASA Software products. Because I work for KIDASA, I'll stay away from any 15 second elevator speech,...
... My fault for not elaborating my comment. What I meant by "just a drawing tool" was that it didn't include network analysis. I've seen too many Gantt charts...
Bill, Have you had a change to use Milestones Professional in combination with MSFT Project? Glen B. Alleman Director, Program Management Office Information...
Kevin, We're a user of Kidasa and have made productive use of Milestones Professional. Our primary output is EVMS charts for presentation, but the other...
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