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4 Classic Planning Proverbs
04.01.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

“The more you plan the luckier you get.”

“The sooner you get behind schedule, the more time you have to make it up.”
“If everything is going exactly to plan, something somewhere is going massively wrong.”
“Murphy, O’Malley, Sod and Parkinson are alive and well – and working on your project.”
Project Planning, Time Management
The Key Method to Prioritizing Efficiently
03.12.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Chances are high that you and your team have a lot of things to do at the moment and a long list of tasks is currently on your plates.
There’s a cool way to find out what’s the smartest thing to do first by putting each task in one of 4 group in terms of saving [...]
Integration Management, Project Planning
3 Tools to Make Work Breakdown Structure
02.22.09 | Permalink | 9 Comments

After making a preliminary scope statement and some high level planning, most contracts can be signed and actual production can start. The direction of the project is clear but more details are needed to efficiently control the work. For this I get the project team together and make a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), it’s [...]
Project Planning
How does a project get a year late?
02.17.09 | Permalink | Comment?

One day at a time.
This little piece of wisdom is one of my favorite project management proverbs. It’s number 40 in a long list of PM jokes and proverbs I found the other day. Interesting stuff, but be warned, you’ll notice about 95% of it is horribly corny.
Project Planning
Planning the Perfect Deadline
02.05.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

Here are some important things you can use as a checklist when thinking about deadlines.

Check to see if a deadline is on a Friday, this happens all the time and it’s probably a bad idea because people make plans for the weekend and if something should go wrong you’re in for a challenge. I like [...]