Tailoring Considerations For Project Scheduling
When it comes to managing projects, you need to understand there are no hard fast rules. Every project is unique and it must be approached as such. That is why the project needs to look at the situation that he has at hand and determine the best approach to manage the project so as to achieve the desired outcome. In this article, I want to look at tailoring consideration for project scheduling. Let’s see some of the facts that you need to understand about these in this article.
Because each project is unique, the project manager may need to tailor the way project schedule management processes are applied. Tailoring considerations for project scheduling are not limited to the following:
#1 Life cycle approach
When it comes to how you are going to approach the project, you have to look at the lifecycle approach that will allow for a more detailed schedule. You need to look at the project and decide on the best way to approach it. This might involve combining many development approaches together in order to achieve the desired result.
#2 Resource availability
In determining whether the resources are available or not. You have to ask this question: What are the factors influencing durations such as the correlation between available resources and there productivity?
#3 Project dimensions
How will the presence of project complexity, technological uncertainty, product novelty, pace, or progress tracking(such as earned value, percentage complete, red-yellow-green(stop light) indicators ) impact the desired level of control?
#4 Technology support
Is technology used to develop, record, transmit , receive, and store project schedule model information and is it readily accessible? You have to determine the reliability of the technology. This will help you to determine whether you adequate tools to achieve the objectives of your project. This will also assist the project manager in updating stakeholders about the progress of the project.
Considerations for Agile and Adaptive environments…
Adaptive approaches use short cycles to undertake work, review the results, and adapt as necessary. These cycles provide rapid feedback on the approaches and suitability of deliverables, and generally manifest as iterative scheduling and on-demand, pull-based scheduling.
In large organizations, there may be a mixture of small projects and large initiatives requiring long-term roadmaps to manage the development of these programs using scaling factors (e.g team size, geographical distribution, regulatory compliance, organizational compliance, organizational complexity, and technical complexity). To address the full delivery life cycle for larger, enterprise-wide systems, a range of techniques utilizing a predictive approach, adaptive approach, or a hybrid of both, may need to be adopted.
The organization may need to combine practices from several core methods, or adopt a method that has already done so, and adopt a few principles and practices of more traditional techniques.
The role of the project manager does not change based on managing projects using a predictive development life cycle or managing projects in predictive environments. However, to be successful in using adaptive approaches, the project manager will need to be familiar with the tools and techniques to understand how to apply them effectively.
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