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Managing Projects as Investments
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Managing Projects as Investments

by Stephen A. Devaux
September 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
255 pages
7h 45m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Managing Projects as Investments
141Chapter seven: Of resources and rightsizing
this would cause would make each component’s delivery later than the
contractual date. Addressing the rst component, I worked with the proj-
ect manager using drag, DRED, and true cost metrics, to try to pull in
the testing activity to t into the earliest possible window of availability.
Unfortunately, a two-week activity immediately before testing stood in
the way: “PREPARE TEST FACILITY.”
The program manager and I visited the functional manager respon-
sible for the test preparation, showed him our schedule and how his activ-
ity’s drag, combined with the small availability windows, was going to
make every component late. He shrugged: “I can get preparation done in
two days if you give me enough ...
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ISBN: 9781482212709