The aim of effective project management is to bring the project to completion on time and on schedule. Estimating project duration is a key function of scheduling. Individual activities make up the ...

The conference announcements so far... I just watched Microsoft executives demonstrate the upcoming Project 2010 product here in Phoenix at the Project Conference 2009. Here are my first blush ...

Any tool that can help streamline workflow and keep projects on schedule could be a game changer for many business professionals. This is something the minds at Microsoft know all too well, evident in ...

Project work estimation has three components: the initial first cut, commonly known as a SWAG (scientific wild-ass guess), tracking the estimate against the actual numbers, and using the schedule to ...

Last week I received a question about project estimation. If you’re part of a next-generation IT group, project estimation is a critically important capability. If, on the other hand, you’re part of a ...

Project managers and business owners depend on the critical path method of project estimation to split up massive projects into more manageable jobs. They then analyze the relationships between jobs ...