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Project Activity Inquisition
Hello there, I am in my final year(university) and I major in Project Management, but, I have not really had a project manager's experience neither do I have project managers at my reach to ask ques...
Abraham_VA,
As usual Dale gave an excellent overview with great details. I'll throw in my 2 cents.
When developing a plan for a new project consulting the stake holders (i.e. the people who will actually have to perform the tasks) is very important. Relying on a "management guesstimate" is a really bad idea. One thing I found very helpful when doing proposals was to use historical data from previous projects that were similar or even scale that data if complexity is greater or lesser than what is being proposed.
John
As usual Dale gave an excellent overview with great details. I'll throw in my 2 cents.
When developing a plan for a new project consulting the stake holders (i.e. the people who will actually have to perform the tasks) is very important. Relying on a "management guesstimate" is a really bad idea. One thing I found very helpful when doing proposals was to use historical data from previous projects that were similar or even scale that data if complexity is greater or lesser than what is being proposed.
John
"Historical data from previous projects"...hmm great point. Thanks John.
