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Godzilla Principle, 12-13, 16, 95, 228
human resources, 88, 99 overhead cost of, 189-190, 191-192
independent project portfolios, 258-261
249 noncritical task, 136, 176 inflation, 192-193 interdependent project portfolios, 258-259, 262-266 internal customer, 223-224 iterative process, 83
job costing, 195-203
lag task, 77 definition of, 66 late start, 176-177 Learning Curves Method, 194 office politics
least resource scheduling, 267-269 leveling, 145 longest path. See Critical Path loop stage of Project Life Cycle, 10, 11
meetings, 231-232 middle constraint Milestone Chart, 230 milestone, 66, 91, 226, 228 monitoring systems, 11, 227-253, 273-274
T(m) motivation, 221-222 multiple predecessors, 127 Must Start/Must Finish dates, 91
negative slack definition of, 174 network planning methods, 116, 160 Nominal Group Technique (NGT), noncritical path, 136 definition of, 171 normal cost, 118-119 normal time, 118-119
objective, 21-39 definition of, 23 office politics, 210-218, 223-224 Optimistic Time Estimate. See T(o) Order of Magnitude Analysis, 193 organizational dynamics. See definition of, 30-31
overhead, 93, 189-190, 195 overlaps, 76
parallel task definition of, 65 path, 171, 174
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path length, 171 path segment, 171 Performance criteria, 24-36 definition of, 24 Personal Information Managers (PIM), 134 PERT. See Program Evaluation and
Review Technique PERT Time Estimate. See T(e) Pessimistic Time Estimate. See
T(p) planning, 41-55 advantages of, 42 iterative process, 83 key to successful, 43 whether to treat as a task, 65 politics role in determining Triple
Constraints, 27
See also office politics portfolio manager, 258 power, 209-219 predecessor task, 9, 87, 127 definition of, 65 priorities, 6 multiple projects and, 269-270 versus projects, 6-7 problem solving, 95-99, 241, 247-250 program, 5 versus project, 5, 6-7 Program Evaluation and Review
Technique, 9, 65-69, 104 activity on arrow, 66
benefits of using with small projects, 66, 179-182 charting, 159-182 software for creating, 132-134 progress, tracking, 228-247 project, 54 characteristics of a, 4-6 conclusion, 271-276 evaluating a, 273-274 managing with WBS, 46-55 portfolio, 257-270 reasons for failure, 9, 22, 208 schedule, ways to shorten, 135-142 sequencing activities of a, 62-77, 83, 179 task analysis, 81-99 timeline, 124 using Triple Constraints to define a, 25-37 project consultant, 26 Project Control Chart, 228-229 project control office, 54 project layout. See dependency sequencing Project Life Cycle, 9-14, 271-275 project management, 205-226 computers and, 132-134 definition of, 2 restraints, 8 tools, 15-16, 124, 209 whether to treat as a task, 64
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project manager, 2, 15-16, 199, 205-226, 275-276 keys to managing large projects, 55 power and authority of, 209-219 project originator, 9, 25, 29, 32, 36, 251 project portfolio, 257-270
reporting systems, 154, 231, 273 Research and Development (R&D), 193-194 resource allocation, 150, 263 equipment, 89
Gantt Charts and, 142-154 human resources, 88 software and, 132-134 supplies, 89 resource availability, 7-8, 88-89, 132 Resource Gantt Chart, 146, 266 resource management, 15, 180 dependency sequence and, 74-75
Gantt Chart and, 142-154 software and, 132-134 resource scheduling, 135-137, 180 multiple projects and, 266-269 software and, 132-134 resources, 7-8, 15, 73, 117, 135-137, 154 resource costing, 195 reverse crash technique, 182 risk management, 179 dependency sequencing and, 73-74 slack and, 144 standard deviation and, 112-116
Schedule Variance, 233 sequence. See task sequence showstopper, 97-98 sigma, 112-116, 127-129, 135-142, 179 symbol for, 112 sigma squared, 115 slack, 176-177, 180-181 definition of, 73, 171 free, 171 negative, 172 resource, 144-146, 198 time, 73-74, 136 total, 171 slippage, 99 SMART goals, 209 software, project management, 132-134 specifications definition of, 87 standard bell curve distribution, 109 standard deviation, 111-116 start-to-finish (SF) dependency, 75, 76 start-to-start (SS) dependency, 75, 76 Sticky Note PERT, 65-69, 161, 179
Sticky Note WBS, 44, 52 strategic choice, 67, 69-73 subcontractors, 252 subproject, 46-51, 55 definition of, 43 structure of, 49-51 subtask, 54-55 definition of, 43 successor task, 83, 87, 176 supplies, 89 SWAG, 27, 110, 194
T(e), 106-116, 126-129 T(m), 92, 106-114, 126-129 T(o), 92, 106-114, 116, 127-129 T(p), 92, 106-114, 127-129 task, 4 analysis, 81-99 critical, 135-136, 171, 176 definition of, 4, 43 dependent, 65 dummy, 66 identifying, 44 lag, 66 milestone, 66 name, 86 number, 86 parallel, 65 predecessor, 65, 87, 127 scope of, 135, 137-138 successor, 83, 87 Index 291
task analysis, 81-99 estimating time and cost in, 89-93 resource allocation and, 88-89 task sequence, 62, 83, 114, 135, 137 standard deviation for a, 114-116 strategic choice and, 67, 69-73 task table, 126-127, 129-130 teams, 219-223 time, 103-119, 189, 222 crash, 116, 117-119, 136-137, 181
Critical Path and, 175, 179 estimating in task analysis, 89-93 saving, 251-253 slack, 73-74 Time constraint, 24-36 definition of, 24
Gantt Chart, estimating with, 154 time versus resource tradeoffs, 71 timeline, 124 total slack definition of, 171 Tracking Gantt Chart, 154, 233243, 251 Triple Constraints, 24-36, 43, 57, 188, 199, 207 changing the, 31, 32, 224 definition of, 24 multiple projects and, 260
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variable costs, 93, 189 vendors. See cost: client and customer; contacts
WAG, 27, 110 WBS. See Work Breakdown
Structure. Weak constraint definition of, 27-28 What-If Analysis, 95, 154 Work Breakdown Structure, 9 assigning tasks to, 52 large projects and, 54-55 levels of a, 45-53 subproject structure of, 49 chronological/phased, 49 cross-departmental, 49 discipline, 49 functional, 49 work package, 4, 43, 54
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