The true power of the earned value method lies in its ability to sound the alarm before a project veers off track. In my days at a large engineering firm, I watched countless project managers stumble into a rude awakening at the end of the monthly billing cycle, only then realizing their project was lagging. ... [Read More]| ProjectEngineer
Sometimes you come across one of those very simple, yet amazingly effective tools that most people who have adopted it wonder how they ever did without. Today is one of those days. Kanban is a task scheduling method originally developed by the Toyota Production System in the 1960's to track inventory levels. Although it is being... [Read More]| ProjectEngineer
A project manager that fails to allocate project resources is like a carpenter without a hammer. That's why estimating task resources is an integral step in project planning. It also happens to be one of the most fundamental aspects of project management, one of the steps that the project manager utilizes on a day to... [Read More]| ProjectEngineer
Project Management is like fixing a car—there are many interrelated, moving parts. When things go wrong, you won't find the problem if you can't isolate the defective part, and you can't fix the problem if you can't remove and replace it. Without a clear plan, you’re just guessing which parts need attention, and chaos ensues. ... [Read More]| ProjectEngineer
If there is only one foundational part of project management, it would have to be breaking down the project into manageable parts. Those parts are called phases and tasks. Everything else is built upon that foundation, so it should not be taken lightly. Although it seems trivial, it is one of the most important parts... [Read More]| ProjectEngineer
If there is only one foundational part of project management, it would have to be breaking down the project into manageable parts. Those parts are called phases and tasks. Everything else is built upon that foundation, so it should not be taken lightly. Although it seems trivial, it is one of the most important parts... [Read More]| ProjectEngineer