Project Management and Change Articles

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Andre Malowney writing at a desk, working through project management reference texts and printed process diagrams

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Resource Levelling vs Resource Smoothing

Both techniques reshape a demand profile that exceeds what you have. The difference is what you are willing to move, and the end date is usually the answer.

Resource Planning in a World of Shared Teams

Half a person for twelve weeks is not a plan. It is a percentage, and percentages hide the thing that actually decides whether the work gets done.

Contingency Reserve vs Management Reserve

One covers the risks you identified. The other covers the ones nobody could have. Keeping them apart is what tells you which kind of trouble you are in.

Velocity: Useful Planning Aid or Dangerous Target?

Velocity is one of the few numbers in delivery that looks like a productivity measure. It is not one, and most of the damage it does comes from that resemblance.

Why Scope, Schedule and Finance Cannot Be Managed Separately

Scope is rarely reduced in a scope meeting. It is reduced by a date being confirmed and a package being let, and the reduction only becomes visible much later.

Scope Baseline Explained

A baseline is not a promise that nothing will change. It is the fixed point that lets everybody say precisely what has changed, and what that change cost.