Rather than writing a BLOG on Close Out, here are a few good websites dealing with the subject:
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Sunday, June 6, 2010
Lesson 18: The Schedule Bar Chart and Responsibility Matrix
The Schedule Bar Chart provides a perspective of the activities/tasks of the project on a time line, and could indicate the relationships and critical path as well as slack per activity.
The Responsibility Matrix provides a clear delineation of roles and responsibilities, based on the WBS. This is done at activity level and provides an overview of who will be responsible and support task/activity execution.
Click here below to obtain an overview of how the Schedule Bar Chart is Created and related to that, how roles and responsibilities are assigned with the aid of the Responsibility Matrix:
The Responsibility Matrix provides a clear delineation of roles and responsibilities, based on the WBS. This is done at activity level and provides an overview of who will be responsible and support task/activity execution.
Click here below to obtain an overview of how the Schedule Bar Chart is Created and related to that, how roles and responsibilities are assigned with the aid of the Responsibility Matrix:
Focus on CPM and Resp Matrix
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Lesson 17c: The Network Logic Diagram Practical
Click here for a practical example of how to create the Network Logic Diagram and calculate the Critical Path:
The Network Diagram and Critical Path
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Sunday, April 11, 2010
Lesson 17b: The General Rules for the Network Logic Diagram
By now the general principle for creating a Network Diagram should be clear. There are however additional rules for creating this sequence of activities. These are outlined below:
- Networks typically flow from left to right
- An activity cannot begin until all of its preceding activities are complete (the most basic relationship is the so called "Finish to Start" relationship)
- Arrows indicate precedence and flow
- Looping is not allowed- a Network Diagram is not a process flow
- Conditional statements are not allowed
- Use distinct start and finish tasks - start with one task, finish with one task (the general rule is, if you do not have a logical start and finish task, then create one)
The next blog will take the case example and create a coherent Network Diagra upon which the Critical Path calculation lessons will be based.
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Lesson 17a: The Network Diagram
In this series of lessons the Network Logic Diagram will be discussed, and animation slides provided to show how this important project management tool is created. First however, here is an overview of the Network Logic Diagram:
- Just a quick reminder that the WBS, is a decomposition of the final deliverable, to sub-deliverables to activities/tasks. This constitutes the scope of work to be done and deviations from this should mandated properly to prevent scope creep
- Whereas the WBS tells us what work needs to be done to generate deliverables, the Network Diagram tells is what activities should be finished before other activities can start
- Remember that two things can basically determine what should be finished before something else can start i.e. the nature of the tasks we are busy with (in which case we refer to it as a logical or technical constraint) and other other factors, where our in our own discretion we decide that something must finish before something else should start (for example we want to ensure resources are utilized optimally)
- Also remember that the Network Diagram is a relationship diagram. We create relationships between tasks, and thereby indicate which tasks are the predecessors of one or more tasks. We also refer to these relationships as dependencies, because by creating the relationships we construct a coherent network where each task is somehow dependent on tasks preceding and following in the total network
CLICK AND PLAY FLASH ANIMATION FOR VISUAL EXPLANATION:
Read more: http://www.whitehatandroid.com/2009/10/flash-blogger-embedd-upload-swf.html#ixzz0kmoPYpJv
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Lesson 16: Completed WBS
This BLOG includes an example of the WBS as per the case study outlined in Lesson 12. The WBS was created in MS Visio, then also in Mind Manager. Links are provided to download the original files for use on a creative commons basis. if you click on the picture included in this BLOG it will enlarge and enable you to see the detail of the WBS.
Here are the links to the relevant files (note you have to register - free) to download the files:
If you do not have the software to open the files here are links to download free viewers:
Friday, April 9, 2010
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