On Constrains
5 years 30 weeks agoYou can not play football without using your feet. You can not play volleyball without using your hands. You can not take part in the Tour de France without a bicycle.
Constraints are meaningful to a certain level, a little bit more and the plan is not a plan anymore. Its a checklist with a date attached to each item.
Too many activities marked “As late as possible”: the
Study Habits For Success: Tips For Student
5 years 30 weeks agoIn today's competitive era unplanned efforts swell up the complexity which intensifies the burden on students causing undue pressure. The solution is Study-Smart rather than Study-Hard. A successful life is no luck; it starts with honesty and depends on good habits. If followed properly these tips no wonder will upsurge the mind’s efficiency resulting in the remarkable outcomes.
Here are
GAO schedule assessment guide - best practices for project schedules really?
5 years 30 weeks agoKanban 101: Improving How We Work
5 years 37 weeks agoKanbanis a versatile and powerful tool to help you manage your work. It can be used to track personal projects, complex operations and large programs; for example, it can be used to:
- Efficiently manage the flow of inventory in a factory,
- Help students manage their homework and papers,
- Track the progress of project tasks and activities,
- Organize
Your Plan is wrong
5 years 42 weeks agoIt is wrong from the moment you print it on paper. This is true in all aspects of life, as life happens every minute, and there are always things that you couldn’t possibly be aware of before you finalize your plan.
Still, the first step of any project is to create a Plan. You’ll be asked to create a baseline and freeze it. Then, start execution and keep your Plan updated, measure the
Create a Learning Environment: Profit from Your Mistakes
5 years 42 weeks ago“All good lessons come at a cost. Try to learn them inexpensively.” Howard Zucker
When I made a mistake as a child, my father would remind me that all lessons come at a cost. The goal was to learn them cheaply. I did not always follow this maxim. But, this pearl of wisdom stayed with me
Primavera P6 export to Excel. How to color WBS level automatically
5 years 44 weeks agoAfter export activity table from Primavera P6 to Excel, it’s very hard to distinguish WBS level.
Communication
5 years 45 weeks agoIn most organizations, communication is not a solution, it’s a problem.
It doesn’t matter how much the “leadership team” emphasize its importance; create many channels: email, phone, Skype, meetings; add it to the core values of the organization, or repeat how necessary it is. In this special case, there is no lesson to be learned.
Basic useless communication requires a minimum of
Eight Tips For A Great Project Report
5 years 45 weeks agoWhether you’re writing for a university project or a corporate client at some point it’s likely that most professions will have you writing a report. While for most people it’s not their favourite part of the job, it is a necessary one. When it’s done well, a report is interesting, insightful and can lead to real change. However, done badly and the report becomes a
Are you managing your projects using the rear view mirror?
5 years 45 weeks agoPeter Drucker, arguably the father of modern management, said "What gets measured, gets managed.”
As we manage projects, the activities that we measure need to be carefully selected in order to achieve our organisational goals. One of the issues of only focusing on traditional activity measures is that we are guiding ourselves with purely historical data. This is like driving only using
