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Effective Project Management, 8th Edition
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Effective Project Management, 8th Edition

by Robert K. Wysocki
May 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
656 pages
18h 5m
English
Wiley
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CHAPTER 7How to Plan a TPM Project

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

—Winston Churchill, English Prime Minister

The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait ’til that other is ready.

—Henry David Thoreau, American naturalist

Every moment spent planning saves three or four in execution.

—Crawford Greenwalt, President, DuPont

CHAPTER LEARNING OBJECTIVES

After reading this chapter, you will be able to:

  • Know how to plan a Joint Project Planning Session (JPPS)
  • Explain the approaches to building the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
  • Generate the WBS
  • Explain the relationship between resource loading and task duration
  • Be able to use any of the six task‐duration estimation methods
  • Construct a network representation of the project tasks
  • Understand the four types of task dependencies and when they are used
  • Recognize the types of constraints that create task sequences
  • Compute the early and late schedule for every task in the network
  • Understand lag variables and their uses
  • Identify the critical path in the project
  • Define free slack and total slack and know their significance
  • Analyze the network for possible schedule compression
  • Understand and apply management reserve
  • Utilize various approaches to leveling resources
  • Determine the appropriate use of substitute resources

How often have you heard it said that planning is a waste of time? No sooner is the plan completed than someone comes along to change it. ...

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