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Improving the Quality of your Microsoft Project 2010 Schedule
Why Have Scheduling Software?
The Key to a High Quality Schedule
The Key to a High Quality Schedule
In the World of the Biggest Projects . . .
The Need for A Good Critical Path
“In most cases, 99.9% of the time, we can't produce a valid critical path.”
- Mike Beattie, Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA), May 2007
Schedule Quality Is . . .• Trust – Is it the truth? Are the Tasks, Resources, Assignments, Costs, Actuals,
etc. accurate?• Fidelity – Is the critical path really the critical path? • Detail – Does it contain the right level of detail?
Trust
DetailFidelity
Schedule Quality Is Not . . .• Performance Problems• Defects in the Deliverables• Scheduler Quality
Trust
DetailFidelity
Ten Common and Serious Problems
1. Missing Predecessors
Task A
2. Missing Successors
Task B
3. Use of Constraints
Must Start OnMust Finish OnStart No Later ThanFinish No Later Than
A slip here . . . . . . won‘t cause a slip here.
As Late As PossibleStart No Earlier ThanFinish No Earlier Than
Hard Constraints Soft Constraints
3. Use of Constraints
Will your schedule pass the push test?
4. Lags
Lag
5. Leads
Lead
6. Planned Start in the Past
Task A
Status Date(or today if no Status
Date)
Hasn’t Started Yet
Task A has a planned Start Date in the past but hasn’t started. The existing Planned Start Date cannot be trusted!
7. Actual Date in the Future
Status Date (or today if no status date)
Task C
8. Summaries With Resources
Summary Task B
Task B1Task A Task B2
9. Summary Tasks With Links
Summary Task B
Task B1Task A Task B2
No!
Yes!
10. Manual Scheduling
Task A
The Impact of Poor Schedule Quality• Don’t Know True Project Finish Date• Rework• Schedule Slippage• Budget Overruns• Lack of trust
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Improving the Quality of your Microsoft Project 2010 Schedule