How To Plan Work and Schedule Resources

By Woodrow Sears

Plan your work and work your plan! Right? No way! "They" change their minds and specs. Why waste time on plans soon to be obsolete? Besides, imprecise plans let us avoid blame. But without plans, there can't be realistic budgets or schedules, no way to refine estimating and bidding for new work, and no way to optimize resource use. Plans are the heart of serious management. How serious are you?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Woodrow Sears
• Release date: Feb 2, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458072283

Woodrow Sears

Semi-retired consultant, active college instructor, author (6 books for HRD Press in 2007-8), regular contributor to the Cincom "ExpertAccess" business e-zine. I hold one of the early doctorates in Human Resource Development, lectured extensively on project management on an international circuit, worked with clients to install systems, and was heavily involved in civil rights, supervisory, and management training. Came to Lithuania in 1998 as a volunteer, and never left. I live in Vilnius in a former monastery, heat with wood (by choice), and love cooking for friends. Living in Europe is special everyday!

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HOW TO PLAN WORK AND

SCHEDULE RESOURCES

by

Dr. Woody Sears

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Planning Work and Scheduling Resources

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Contents

* Author’s Note

* Planning Work and Scheduling Resources

* Introduction

* Planning Fundamentals

* Shaping the Planning/Scheduling Process

* Introducing a New Ideal

* Recognizing Resource Constraints

* Building a Control/Schedule Board

* Developing Work Packages

* Summary

* About the Author

Author's Note

Many times in lecturing around the U.S., I've asked audiences how seriously they take planning. The question always results in laughter. In Slovakia, I learned that if you want to hear God laugh, make a plan. We've all heard the expression, plan your work and work your plan. But common wisdom says planning is a waste of time, there are too many variables, ‘they’ keep changing their minds, etc. It seems to