Project Schedule Assessment: A Case Study

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Project Schedule Assessment: A Case Study

Dr. Andrew Makar, DMIT, PMP

December 14, 2009





I was recently asked to join a troubled program as a program management consultant. The program had eight major workstreams and the team recently developed a new integrated Microsoft Project schedule with revised launch dates. The program launch date had slipped several times before and this was the final attempt to deliver the program with the new round of funding. The project team was confident the project schedule for 3,500 tasks was realistic and on schedule to deliver.
 
In order to assess the project’s schedule status, I wanted to review the integrated project schedule to answer three questions:
 
1. Is the project on schedule?
2. What areas of the project schedule are running behind schedule?
3. What specific tasks are late?
 
Using Microsoft Project and Excel, I was able to quickly answer these questions and established a set of schedule metrics that the program applied to their status reviews.



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