I am currently teaching project management to professionals in a large technical firm. I am a rather entertaining teacher (if I may say so myself), and I think I have been able to explain the complexities of the analysis of deterministic and probabilistic project networks to calculate project duration and the critical path as well as how to use the normal distribution to determine various confidence intervals for the project duration.
Although the students appear to enjoy my lectures, they frequently ask for practical suggestions on how to use the topics in their daily work. To be honest, I'm not sure how to react to their inquiries. On the one hand, I have a number of college books on project management, but none of them appear to provide the practical guidance they require. On the other hand, I've looked at several more practical books that offer advise and ideas on how to effectively manage projects and I confess I found them quite rudimentary.
I would appreciate advice as to how to proceed and any tips on literature sources that might have escaped my attention (or even approaches and methods). What I am doing wrong?
Hi John
Have you joined project management institute (PMI). There are many courses accredited by PMI (pmi.org).
About duration of project, it is important to discuss with the team leader/members about each activity. They knew how long to organise machinery/equipment/tools/supply, about man-hours to do the actual work, check the quality of work, test the product etc., work out expected delays due to weather, supply, approval etc. Then risks needs to be identified by discussing with stakeholders; risk management plan to be prepared, possible project delays can be worked out from the risk management plan. experience from the past projects, learnings from the delivered projects, feedback from the client and stakeholders etc. really helpful to plan the project including the duration. Available resources play key part in working project duration as some of the project work can be sub-contracted out.
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