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Floris,
I am now 70, so I have written a few of these. One I wrote nearly all of, for a major UK contractor, ran to 300 pages. Not just the key scheduling decisions like WBS and other codes, but how to manage the interfaces with timesheets and costing, load resources from external estimating systems, produce the invoice back-up reports. But I ran my own business for years, so I was producing that material for clients, who have the copyright. So, I can’t send you a copy.
That every company that thinks they do project management, does not have a company specific manual to give to a new scheduler is clearly mad. Being aware of this for the last thirty years has not dulled my sense of incredulity. How can you think you are doing project management without a plan?
And while I am on my high horse, when you have squeezed costs to the bone, how do you make more money? Plan the work better. I've been banging that drum for 40 years. We are a profit centre, anyone listening?
23:30 hrs and I'm wide awake now. I'll raid the fridge.
Floris,
I am now 70, so I have written a few of these. One I wrote nearly all of, for a major UK contractor, ran to 300 pages. Not just the key scheduling decisions like WBS and other codes, but how to manage the interfaces with timesheets and costing, load resources from external estimating systems, produce the invoice back-up reports. But I ran my own business for years, so I was producing that material for clients, who have the copyright. So, I can’t send you a copy.
That every company that thinks they do project management, does not have a company specific manual to give to a new scheduler is clearly mad. Being aware of this for the last thirty years has not dulled my sense of incredulity. How can you think you are doing project management without a plan?
And while I am on my high horse, when you have squeezed costs to the bone, how do you make more money? Plan the work better. I've been banging that drum for 40 years. We are a profit centre, anyone listening?
23:30 hrs and I'm wide awake now. I'll raid the fridge.
Does nobody has experience with starting as a scheduler for a project where you receive a "company schedule guideline" to which you have to adhere ?
Double post.
Email: PPadmin@planningplanet.com
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