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Level up your project schedules: 5 advanced techniques

Rebel’s Guide to PM

Critical path method Do you really know the critical path of your projects? Perhaps your work is very linear so it’s so obvious you don’t need to go through the exercise of working it out. Critical chain : Uses the slack in task time to act as a buffer at the end of a chain of tasks or at the end of a project.

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Simplifying Schedule Risk Analysis Using Microsoft Project Custom Fields – Transcription

MPUG

Unfortunately, many projects to the detriment of the people executing them, are delivered late and it’s not usually anything to do with estimating or project execution. It’s got nothing to do with poor estimating, poor execution or even risks that occurred or did not occur. We have a buffer, another term for it.

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