We’ve been working on a series of books:
– Easy EVM is published: See more on the book
– Easy CPM is a work in progress, publication later this year
– Easy SHM will follow in 2022.
As part of the development of Easy CPM as course-in-a-book which is designed to act as a reference and practice guide for people implementing CPM scheduling after they have learned to use the CPM scheduling software of their choice. We have updated Mosaic’s ‘core scheduling papers‘; these are:
– A Guide to Scheduling Good Practice
– Attributes of a Scheduler
– Dynamic Scheduling
– Links, Lags & Ladders
– Schedule Float
– Schedule Levels
– Schedule Calculations
These updated papers are available to download and use free of charge under a Creative Commons 3.0 license: Download the papers from https://mosaicprojects.com.au/PMKI-SCH-010.php
Pat Weaver
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Too bad Pat that you cannot or will not let go of PMI as if they were the center of the universe.
Go check the comments on Glassdoor Glassdoor.com/Reviews/Project-Management-Institute-humiliating-Reviews-EI_IE256669.0,28_KH29,40.htm?sort.sortType=OR&sort.ascending=true&filter.iso3Language=eng and you can see the organization, despite having 600 MILLION USD in liquid assets is a dying organization, quickly falling into irrelevance.
Why are you touting GOOD practices in your work? You are a capable and competent researcher and surely based on your research on 6000+ years of human beings “initiating, planning, executing, controlling and closing” projects you should be able to identify “Best TESTED and PROVEN practices”?
One place to start is with adopting and embracing the 5 principles underlying the Scientific Method https://sciencing.com/five-characteristics-scientific-method-10010518.html
1) Empirical,
2) Replicable,
3) Provisional,
4) Objective and
5) Systematic.
The Scientific Method dates back to the 12th Century https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/scientific-method/ and in the past ~900 years, has brought humans hundreds of thousands of new products and services, including the telephone (Bell), lightbulb (Edison) and penicillin (Fleming) to name but a few.
Given that the scientific method has become the basis of what is today is known as “Agile” in its many combinations and permutations, why can’t we or won’t we START by acknowledging the Scientific Method as being a “best tested and proven”?
And how about the ORIGINS of Earned Value Management having started between the END of the Guilds in the 16th Century and the factory floors of the 18th Century Industrial Revolution as an “incentive payment” or “pay for performance” system as documented in Gillette and Dana’s 1909 book “Cost Keeping and Management Engineering: A Treatise for Engineers, Contractors and Superintendents Engaged in the Management of Engineering Construction” https://books.google.co.id/books?redir_esc=y&id=zO-ADudj-R8C&focus
Or are you still going to support what PMI and the US Government advocate, even though in the 35 years PMI has been publishing their PMBOK/PMBOK Guide we have seen no measurable improvements in project success rates, a fact that even PMI has had to admit by abandoning the process-based model for a PRINCIPLE based approach?
You do NOT NEED PMI or any other professional organization. IF you want to become a true LEADER, take the time to continue your research to find and publish “best tested and PROVEN” practices and 100+ years from now, people will be citing YOUR work, not that of PMI.
Paul, you are really starting to become totally obnoxious.
1. There is no such thing as a ‘best’ practice – there maybe a currently though of as best practice (based on what we currently know). I don’t make this claim – merely to suggest the recommended practices are ‘good’ and deliver benefit if used.
2. I’m not sure what your paranoia about PMI has to do with scheduling papers I’ve developed over a period of 30 years.
3. None of the papers have anything to do with EVM, The Easy EVM book is based on ISO 21508 published in 2018 – hardly ancient history.
@Pat, I speak the truth and the only ones who find it obnoxious are those who refuse to recognize or accept it,
Are you telling us that creating a WBS is NOT a best-tested and proven practice, dating back to Henri Fayol and probably well before that?
Or how about creating REALISTIC time and cost budgets based on the real or existing conditions and available resources? Are those not “BEST TESTED AND PROVEN” practices?
And where in ISO 21508 do they talk about the ORIGINS of Earned Value as a “pay for performance” or “incentive payment system” as clearly described by Gillette and Dana? Do you realize that in construction, we still use what Gillette and Dana describe in many trades who PRICE/QUOTE and are PAID using the “Unit in Place” method? Do you realize that the basis of Earned Value is still being used in nearly all production factories around the world today and is known as “piecework”? Don’t you think that is important information to communicate to current and future adopters of EVM?
How much longer is it going to be before we tell the TRUTH so that future generations are aware of these TRUTHS especially before the current generation starts to AUTOMATE what has largely been done manually for most of our working lives?
As there are precious few of us willing to do the research, especially those coming from PMI who have had a profound and not necessarily positive impact on the practice of project management, don’t you feel obligated to tell “the TRUTH the whole TRUTH and nothing BUT THE TRUTH” even if it goes against published standards by PMI or ISO?
Paul – your version of the ‘truth’ may. or may not be accurate, the facts you quote are not disputed – but this is completely irrelevant to the subject of this post. The concept of the WBS certainly goes back to the early 1900s if not before. Cost breakdowns probably go back to the 1400s. Neither have anything to offer to the process of developing useful schedule – the focus of the post, or applying ISO 21508 in the 21st century the focus of Easy EVM.
I am looking at the origins of the WBS (publication probably in December) and cost management/engineering (as distinct from accounting – publication early in 2022). Neither topic has much relevance to the development of a schedule in 2021, or applying ISO 21508 to a business project in 2021.