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Old 02-20-2008, 05:39 AM
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Useful techniques to fine-tune your project schedule

Do you have a staff sitting idly in the midst of the other busy ones? This situation tells you that your project schedule might need fine-tuning.

One of the most common problems that project managers weep about is “unrealistic timelines,” a common consequence of clients having set their expectations too high even before the project starts. Ironically, there are occurrences in the duration of a project when a staff is sitting idly, waiting for a colleague to finish so he can start his own task. In this situation, does the project manager shout foul and blame other people? Chances are, as a project manager, he needs to give the project schedule a second look.

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RE: Useful techniques to fine-tune your project schedule

Nice article!
It really may help the unexperienced PM.
But I miss the practice of "Resource Leveling".
Bad resource leveling is one of the major reasons for unrealistic time-scheduling!

If you assign one resource to 100% in the critical path without any slack, you must know, that you will miss the deadline!!! But I saw this in many time schedules.

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