Part of building a project schedule entails the sequencing of tasks to be completed in furtherance of the project. There are a number of determinants that go into sequencing, but one of the most important is to determine project schedule task dependencies. A dependency between tasks is: what needs to happen before something else can occur. The first task, that is the task that [Continue Reading]
Stakeholder Analysis and the Salience Model – Part 2: Using the Model
Using the Salience Model will be the subject of this second part exploration of using the technique in your stakeholder analysis practice. The theory and background is covered in Stakeholder Analysis and the Salience Model – Part 1: What is the Model. The combination of the analysis of power, legitimacy, and urgency of a proposed stakeholder yields their salience. Based on [Continue Reading]
Stakeholder Analysis and the Salience Model – Part 1: What is the Model
We all know how important it is to get your stakeholder identification right. It is critical to the success of your project to understand who your stakeholders are, what their motivations are, and the impact they can have on the project. If you get the stakeholder analysis wrong your risk of missing deadlines, cost overruns, or even outright failure can increase significantly. [Continue Reading]
The Project Scheduling Formula – Part 1
This tutorial from the Point Prox Video Series is the first of a multi-part series that will explore the execution of the MS Project 2016 scheduling formula. The execution and management of this scheduling formula is one of the things that makes Project more than just a spreadsheet with some fancy drawing tools. The formula controls how durations, work, and resource usages are [Watch video]
Why Another Project Management Blog?
There are so many project management blogs on the internet; from the big boys like Project Smart and Project-Management.com to pithy focused offering likes The Tao of PM or the entertaining Herding Cats site. So, another one! What a waste of time. Why bother! That is certainly what we asked ourselves taking on the effort to create this site and the volume of care and feeding it [Continue Reading]
