Project Management for Trainers: Stop "Winging It" and Get Control of Your Training Projects

Schedule

Time is monitored through the critical path diagram and Gantt chart. In most project management software packages, there is a way to enter both planned and actual times for each activity. This distinction is important if you are going to use the software to help you monitor the project.

If you use project management software, carefully check it to see how it handles actual and planned activity times. As a project manager, you want to look forward using the planned activity time, but you want to watch for trends and glitches using the actual activity times. The critical path, or longest path of time, which the project manager must monitor carefully, can change as a result of actual time. Figure 5.2 illustrates how this could happen. ...