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How to plan and manage plan your projects realistically and efficiently
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Tags: project, software, tool, management tool, project planner
Optimizing a project plan is very often a tedious, time-consuming and stressful job, because the PMO or the PM has to take account, at the same time, of customers, employees and company equirements. But, in fact, these requirements are antagonists: customers require fast delivery, employees fair treatment and the company insists that budgets be respected. Needless say, such equilibrium is very difficult to obtain, but also to maintain once the projects have started. Indeed, the tasks are very often more difficult than foreseen, and unplanned events, like sickness, occur… Thus, re-planning is just too hard to be handled regularly. That’s why so many plans are just made for marketing purposes and not for real and effective management.
Having comprehensively analyzed these planning processes over the last 8 years, ISC proposes, in PlanningForce, a new methodology which will allow PMOs and PMs to increase dramatically the efficiency of their project plan. This new methodology is based on several statements and planning techniques:
| | Projects and tasks should preferably be described through the notion of required roles instead of required resources |
| | Projects should not be scheduled ‘a priori’, but have date constraints, goals and priorities |
| | Risk factors and uncertainties should be identified and applied to both tasks and resources |
| | Different solutions for a same plan should be easily produced to reflect different scenarios |
| | The history of a plan should be kept and analyzed to learn from the past |
| | And plans should be automatically produced thanks to advanced algorithms and search techniques |
Lister:
jamesdany
Source:
PlanningForce
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