Schedules Articles

These exercises go with the “Tough Scheduling” paper. They review fundamentally difficult scheduling problems, including:

• resource leveling
• representing task dependencies - hard and soft
• managing difficult-to-predict or quickly-changing work assignments
• making schedules easy to maintain during project execution

Focuses on proven techniques and principles, NOT the pros and cons of specific software tools.

Presented at the PMI 2003 Global Congress — North America on September 23, 2003 in Baltimore, MD.

Task Calendars are one of the most powerful tools available for scheduling special events. Introduced in MS Project 2000, they help project managers precisely schedule certain types of work.

Learn advanced techniques to schedule work that must be performed on a certain schedule. The article builds on “Calendars”, which shows how to schedule work according to resources’ schedules.

Published in Microsoft Project Users Group (MPUG) Newsletter - The Project Network, Volume 7, Issue 2-2003.

Task Calendars are one of the most powerful tools available for scheduling special events. Introduced in MS Project 2000, they help project managers precisely schedule certain types of work.

Learn advanced techniques to schedule work that must be performed on a certain schedule. The article builds on “Calendars”, which shows how to schedule work according to resources’ schedules.

Published in Microsoft Project Users Group (MPUG) Newsletter - The Project Network, Volume 7, Issue 2-2003.

Microsoft Project is a widely-used scheduling tool. Its quirks and complications are a huge drain of time on the Project Management community. This article discusses four techniques to take back control of your schedule from MS Project, by understanding its default behavior better, and setting up the tool to meet your needs.

Published in the PMI Information Systems SIG newsletter, Third Quarter 2002.