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Time Management
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By Rod Hutchings MAppSc MAIPM MACS RegPM(MPD)
Estimating how long it will take to complete work, develop project schedule, and ensure completion.
Project Schedule – for each project a project schedule should be defined early on. Tasks should be identified down to the task/person level. Project schedule templates (plans for software upgrades, software development etc…) should be developed so that project managers have a “pool” to pull from.
- All projects that have more than 5 resources and have duration of longer than 1 month should utilize Microsoft Project to develop a project schedule.
- Requirements should be done prior to development work.
- In areas where business changes are needed, significant time should be allotted to do this.
- Include entire project team in planning. This will help minimize tasks being overlooked in the plan.
- Break the project into small pieces. Not all functionality has to be delivered with one release.
- Time needed for the project by the various resources needs to be better identified. Often the time is underestimated.
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