Project Planning

Post and Pre Project Review - Most Projects Fail Because of People

Download Article on Project Review and GROW model

Not a surprise but here's how to avoid the problems.
An Assessment Centre for important projects and most important:apply the 'GROW' model, i.e. Goals, Reality, Options and Will.

John Cornish is Managing Director at Micro Planning International Ltd., based in Wimborne, UK, with a mission to support MPI customers across UK and the rest of Europe.

John enjoyed a career spanning twenty-nine years in high tech electronic engineering companies with over twelve years of practical experience in managing major projects. Twelve years of practical experience in managing major projects. Next John writes on innovation:

Innovation in Projects

Projects needs innovative ideas.

PERT - critical path methodology

John Cornish MD of MPI UK says:

We provide you with two excellent articles below on PERT.
1. An introduction
2. An 80 page comprehensive guide
More is available if you email me at john@microplanning.co.uk

PERT Introduction - by John Cornish Managing Director MPI International UK

PERT Introduction download pdf

Summary of what is in the pdf:
Successful Project Managers, Planners and Schedulers start with a PERT Diagram.

it clearly shows logical dependencies
essential to see bottlenecks
easier to understand analyses and control the project

The Gantt view is derived from the PERT Diagram
Gantt views may have their place for simply projects with low numbers of activities.
But their value in clearly showing dependencies reduces significantly as more activities or sub-projects are added.
This leads to logical errors being unwittingly made and poor control of projects
Using a PERT Diagram means the logic is always on show, leading to better communications and more successful projects.

PERT Comprehensive Guide

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Summary of what is in the pdf:

Chapter 1 basic introduction to critical path methodology and network techniques
Elements of a network
1. Network Techniques
2. Network Diagrams
3. Arrow Diagrams
4 Precedence Diagrams
5. Activity and Event Types
6. Dummy Activities
Ladder
Starts, Ends and Dangles
Loops

Chapter 2
Basic introduction network techniques
Construction of a network
Hints for drawing networks
Time estimates
Estimating times for all activities
The micro planner calculation
The critical path and its use
Reduction of the critical path
Progressing
Resources
1. The type of resources
2. Resource Requirements
3. Simple Resources
4. Complex Resources
5 Ladder Resource Requirements
6. Resource Categories
7. Resource Availabilities
8 Pool Resources
Management Impositions
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Raf Dua - A History of Scheduling

The History of Scheduling article

Raf Dua is General Manager of Micro Planning International Asia Pacific Pty Ltd based in Melbourne, Australia.

Raf has been involved with MPI for all of its thirty years.

Raf was a foundation member of the Australian Institute of Planning Engineers in 1968, and has decades of experience in managing multi-million dollar projects for the Australian Defence (Army, Navy and Air force), Healthcare, Mining and IT industries.

In addition, Raf has given innumerable presentations to learned bodies in many countries on project planning, resource scheduling methodologies and project control techniques and has lectured at numerous universities in Australia. Raf is also a founding member of the College of Scheduling of the Project Management Institute (PMI).

The History of Scheduling

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