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Demystifying project task duration

There is no universal answer to the question of what is the ‘correct’ way to assess project durations, but here Patrick Weaver presents an overview of the multiple factors that should be considered by project managers.

May 16, 2012

Cost cutting a boon for project workers

Project workers are set to benefit from the cost cutting practices of businesses as more organisations employ a more project-based approach in their operations.

May 4, 2012

News

Project schedules: the good, the bad, and the pretty

What makes for a quality project schedule? Martin Vaughan sifts through the good, the bad and the ‘pretty and colourful’ to find the perfect balance, and laments the lost art of project scheduling.

April 26, 2012

The myth of flexibility: people, projects, prostration

Dedicated project managers bend over backwards to serve the project, their sponsors and stakeholders but are rarely flexible when it comes to meeting their own needs.

April 23, 2012

Blogs

Devils in detail and project estimating fallacies

Project estimating costs and durations can be done in great detail using Excel or more sophisticated tools. However, detailed is not synonymous with accurate! Pat Weaver provides a more pragmatic approach to estimating time and costs on a project.

April 18, 2012

Cost
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Risk management can save large projects $5 trillion

Governments and businesses can reduce the cost of their infrastructure investments by more than $5 trillion by 2030 if they improve how they manage the risks inherent in large projects, according to a new report by global management consultancy Oliver Wyman.

March 16, 2012

News

Time: the bright side of the iron triangle

Time is one side of the so-called project management ‘iron triangle’ by which the success of a project is superficially measured. Cost and quality complete the trio. It’s interesting to see time elevated to the same level as the other constraints when it is the most predictable but the least manageable of the three.

January 27, 2012

Blogs
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The truth about Gantt charts

Henry Gantt is famous for the wrong reasons. He did not invent bar charts that simply show the time work is planned to occur: these were invented more than 100 years before Gantt’s work.

January 25, 2012

Quality
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