Gantt « A PM's workshop

As the time goes by – Managing versions

By Eugenio, on August 14th, 2009

Nice attempt to hide the guest

In our projects, time comes in two versions:

“Fixed” in terms of delivery dates.
“Flowing” like a cursor moving with a uniform velocity on the calendar (toward the milestones).

These truisms are needed for introducing the concept [...]

Contingencies & Risks

By Eugenio, on August 5th, 2009

“Contingency / workaround plans”, or “Exception plan” [3] should be viewed as a stem of the Risk Plan. A bud, which can sprout quickly and strongly, because it has all the information (DNA, if you have a boy who loves biology) is contained in the [...]

Gantt -2 (Business Case)

By Eugenio, on July 1st, 2009

The project has to answer to a (reasonably) well defined need. This answer, to be useful, has to be centered in only one logic that will be transformed into a product.

Complex products are composed by different parts kept together by an unique logic. If, sometimes, it is possible to release prototypes with some “visible” features; [...]

Gantt – 1

By Eugenio, on June 30th, 2009

For its apparent ease of displaying complex situations, the use of Gantt’s diagrams could be considered a flag in the project management’s methodology dispute.

From one side, traditionalists see in the bars a tool for organizing the future. Framing any source of risk in order to obliterate them.
On the other side, the “agilists” try to substitute [...]