WBS « A PM's workshop

What “done” can be defined.

By Eugenio, on July 29th, 2009

Where to cut

In my post, following a thread created by Craig Brown and developed by Glen Allen, I closed it confessing my difficult to offer a clean definition of what can be defined as “done”. In my mind there is the “Prince2” definition that sounds:

“Everything that has passed the tests based on stately accepted [...]

Fractals: a visual pattern for probing Gantt’s diagrams

By Eugenio, on July 6th, 2009

Logic applied to art

The existence of a neat diagram seems to reassure enough most of the stakeholders (and sponsors).

Like a loom, Gantt’ diagrams offer (with apparently easiness) the possibility of adding weaves in order to create a design that will be self-explaining the whole project’s logic.

There are some questions for probing this viewpoint (and [...]

Understanding sponsors’ priorities

By Eugenio, on June 25th, 2009

The Business Case contains the list of benefits produced to the business by the project.
Is it possible from this reading, to understand which are the forces that will trace the project’s path?

Can the benefits offer a substantial view of the customers?
Are they the most influential slice of the Stakeholder?
Will the composition of stakeholders [...]

WBS – validating project’s feasibility

By Eugenio, on June 8th, 2009

WBS

The WBS is one of the earliest “top-down” techniques in the project management.
To acquire the sufficient knowledge about the feasibility of an initiative, it is necessary to split it into smaller tasks. This action brings the following advantages:

Familiarizing with the topic. It could be visualized with a chain of thoughts that can either underlining [...]