MilestoneTask
Project Management Best Practices Blog & PMP Resources
Microsoft project allows users to group project activities into what is known as summary tasks. It is a useful tool that can be used to organize project activities. However, there are some do’s and don’ts associated with the use of summary tasks like duration and resources are not assigned to a summary task. Many people refer to MSP summary task as project work breakdown structure (WBS), which is incorrect. Read More
During project execution most of us have dealt with the issue of wrong cost estimates. This issue becomes a serious concern especially when you are working on a fixed price contract, these contracts pose a great risk to project margin as the team must work with zero escalation of costs until the delivery of the project. Wrong cost estimates adversely affect project margin and surface only during later stages. Read More
Fundamentals of project planning and scheduling is a post highlighting the basic points that needs to be considered while developing a project schedule. Background One of my smooth progressing engineering project was suddenly jolted by numerous emails and phone calls from the project sponsor asking the management to expedite activities at site. The project was… Read More
Project schedule development process is an iterative process and continues through out the project as work progresses. Project schedule is updated as the duration, resource estimates change on account of changes to project scope and budget. Anticipated risks may occur or disappear and this may also result is updating the project schedule. Before we start… Read More
Benefits of a Project Management Plan: A project management plan is the collection of outputs of the project planning processes. It defines how the project is executed, monitored and controlled and closed. This needs to be updated and revised throughout the Integrated Change Control Process and it consists of the following Project Scope Management Plan… Read More
This article intends to guide in preparing a daily project execution plan that can help a project manager in taking control of activities and channeling his efforts in meeting the milestones or project deliverable. Importance of planning A project manager needs to plan all activities required to achieve project deliverable, latest project planning software’s are… Read More
