What do project managers do all day? Why? Does it add value? What about all the artifacts (plans, schedules, reports, etc.) that are part of our days? What’s the value? This presentation aims to answer what we do and what value it delivers. How Project Management Adds Value Presentation (pdf)
Many of the same competing project forces which are common in the business world are also well represented in the Shuttle Program. The Space Shuttle has always been a work-in-progress, constantly being reviewed, revised, studied, and improved. How is this constant change managed? Projects compete for scarce resources (knowledgeable staff, funding, time, etc.). Complicating the …
Project Management Challenges in the Space Shuttle Flight Design Program Read More »
When we are in the planning phase of a project it’s common to iteratively build out the WBS and subsequent project schedule. Often as we learn more and dig deeper into the work required we will break out a task into a work package/summary task and a set of subtasks which are what’s needed to …
MS Project: Error of Assigning Resources to Summary Tasks Read More »
Often times a larger project’s Gantt chart gets “busy” and hard to read. All the summary bars are black. Everything looks the same. For a small project it’s not so bad but for larger projects it gets difficult to pick out what part of the schedule is being looked at. One simple way to improve …
