Baseline Schedule and Scheduling in Project Management

Baseline Schedule

If you are working in the field of project management, most probably you are using project schedules or working close to the schedulers to ensure effective time management in your project. Undoubtfully, time management is one of the most important … Read more

Discrete Effort , Level of Effort , Apportioned Effort

Discrete Effort , Level of Effort , Apportioned Effort

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

Program Evaluation Review Technique – PERT

Program Evaluation Review Technique - PERT

Activity on Node and Activity on Arrow Diagrams, Critical Path Analysis, Critical Chain Method are widely used scheduling tools in project time management. A PERT chart is a project management method that allows getting a visual representation of a project … Read more

Lead vs Lag in Project Management: Definitions&Examples

Lead vs Lag (Lead Time Lag Time) in Scheduling

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

Critical Chain Method (CCM) in Project Management

The Critical Chain Method Infographic

I’ve sat through a few CCPM training sessions over the years, and they all have the same shape: compelling theory, impressive case studies from manufacturing plants in the 1990s, and a largely optimistic view of how organisations respond to being … Read more

Arrow Diagramming Method Example:FULL Scheduling Guide!

Arrow Diagramming Method

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

Precedence Diagramming Method (Activity on Node method)

precedence diagram method infographic

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

Critical Path Method Example: Steps, Float and Common Mistakes

Critical Path Method (CPM) in Project Management

This critical path method example article covers the full calculation — forward pass, backward pass, float — and the execution problem that makes most CPM implementations less useful than they should be. The critical path method tells you which activities … Read more