There are many tools, techniques, and software tools that exist in the field of project management to improve the planning and monitoring capabilities of project teams. Earned Value Management EVM system is one of the most widely used ones which … Read more
Activities are represented as bars in Gantt Charts and Work Schedules. In some cases, you need to split an activity to model the working and non working periods of it. In other words, activity splitting is a useful way for … Read more
Do you know how to generate different types of resource curves in Primavera P6? Basically, resource curves are used to model the resource or cost distribution of an activity within the project schedule. Depending on the distribution type, resource curves … Read more
Earned Value Management is a significant concept from a PMP Certification Exam point of view. Therefore PMP aspirants should know the basics EVM concept and remember the number of formulas in order to pass the exam. Level of Effort, Discrete Effort, and … Read more
I’ve reviewed programme schedules where a planner had entered positive lag when they intended lead — the dependency type was right, the value was wrong, and the project completion date was sitting 12 days further out than the plan required. … Read more
Most schedulers today work in PDM without ever needing to think about the arrow diagramming method. Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Asta Powerproject — all of them use Activity on Node logic. But this arrow diagramming method example guide covers why ADM still matters: … Read more
Enter a predecessor in any scheduling tool and you’re applying the precedence diagramming method. Most schedulers do this with finish-to-start for every dependency — which works for the majority of relationships but misrepresents the rest. I’ve reviewed programmes where the … Read more
The conversation about fast tracking vs crashing usually happens under pressure. The project is behind schedule, the client wants the original completion date, and someone in the room says “can we just add more people?” Someone else says “can we … Read more
The precedence diagramming method is what most project management software uses by default when you build a schedule network — and most users of those tools have never actually done the underlying calculations by hand. That’s a problem, because the … Read more
The arrow diagramming method is one of those scheduling techniques that most project managers learn for the PMP exam and then rarely use in practice. I learned it properly for the exam, promptly forgot the details once I passed, and … Read more
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