Critical Path Analysis A Complete Guide - 2020 Edition
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Do you say no to customers for no reason? The political context: who holds power? Are you aware of what could cause a problem? Who is gathering information? Why not do Critical path analysis?
Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department.
Unless you are talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions. Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, 'What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?'
This Self-Assessment empowers people to do just that - whether their title is entrepreneur, manager, consultant, (Vice-)President, CxO etc... - they are the people who rule the future. They are the person who asks the right questions to make Critical Path Analysis investments work better.
This Critical Path Analysis All-Inclusive Self-Assessment enables You to be that person.
All the tools you need to an in-depth Critical Path Analysis Self-Assessment. Featuring 955 new and updated case-based questions, organized into seven core areas of process design, this Self-Assessment will help you identify areas in which Critical Path Analysis improvements can be made.
In using the questions you will be better able to:
- diagnose Critical Path Analysis projects, initiatives, organizations, businesses and processes using accepted diagnostic standards and practices
- implement evidence-based best practice strategies aligned with overall goals
- integrate recent advances in Critical Path Analysis and process design strategies into practice according to best practice guidelines
Using a Self-Assessment tool known as the Critical Path Analysis Scorecard, you will develop a clear picture of which Critical Path Analysis areas need attention.
Your purchase includes access details to the Critical Path Analysis self-assessment dashboard download which gives you your dynamically prioritized projects-ready tool and shows your organization exactly what to do next. You will receive the following contents with New and Updated specific criteria:
- The latest quick edition of the book in PDF
- The latest complete edition of the book in PDF, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...
- The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard
- Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation
- In-depth and specific Critical Path Analysis Checklists
- Project management checklists and templates to assist with implementation
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Critical Path Analysis A Complete Guide - 2020 Edition - Gerardus Blokdyk
Critical Path Analysis
Complete Self-Assessment Guide
The guidance in this Self-Assessment is based on Critical Path Analysis best practices and standards in business process architecture, design and quality management. The guidance is also based on the professional judgment of the individual collaborators listed in the Acknowledgments.
Notice of rights
You are licensed to use the Self-Assessment contents in your presentations and materials for internal use and customers without asking us - we are here to help.
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About The Art of Service
The Art of Service, Business Process Architects since 2000, is dedicated to helping stakeholders achieve excellence.
Defining, designing, creating, and implementing a process to solve a stakeholders challenge or meet an objective is the most valuable role… In EVERY group, company, organization and department.
Unless you’re talking a one-time, single-use project, there should be a process. Whether that process is managed and implemented by humans, AI, or a combination of the two, it needs to be designed by someone with a complex enough perspective to ask the right questions.
Someone capable of asking the right questions and step back and say, ‘What are we really trying to accomplish here? And is there a different way to look at it?’
With The Art of Service’s Standard Requirements Self-Assessments, we empower people who can do just that — whether their title is marketer, entrepreneur, manager, salesperson, consultant, Business Process Manager, executive assistant, IT Manager, CIO etc... —they are the people who rule the future. They are people who watch the process as it happens, and ask the right questions to make the process work better.
Contact us when you need any support with this Self-Assessment and any help with templates, blue-prints and examples of standard documents you might need:
http://theartofservice.com
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Included Resources - how to access
Included with your purchase of the book is the Critical Path Analysis Self-Assessment Spreadsheet Dashboard which contains all questions and Self-Assessment areas and auto-generates insights, graphs, and project RACI planning - all with examples to get you started right away.
How? Simply send an email to
access@theartofservice.com
with this books’ title in the subject to get the Critical Path Analysis Self Assessment Tool right away.
You will receive the following contents with New and Updated specific criteria:
•The latest quick edition of the book in PDF
•The latest complete edition of the book in PDF, which criteria correspond to the criteria in...
•The Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard, and...
•Example pre-filled Self-Assessment Excel Dashboard to get familiar with results generation
•In-depth specific Checklists covering the topic
•Project management checklists and templates to assist with implementation
INCLUDES LIFETIME SELF ASSESSMENT UPDATES
Every self assessment comes with Lifetime Updates and Lifetime Free Updated Books. Lifetime Updates is an industry-first feature which allows you to receive verified self assessment updates, ensuring you always have the most accurate information at your fingertips.
Get it now- you will be glad you did - do it now, before you forget.
Send an email to access@theartofservice.com with this books’ title in the subject to get the Critical Path Analysis Self Assessment Tool right away.
Purpose of this Self-Assessment
This Self-Assessment has been developed to improve understanding of the requirements and elements of Critical Path Analysis, based on best practices and standards in business process architecture, design and quality management.
It is designed to allow for a rapid Self-Assessment to determine how closely existing management practices and procedures correspond to the elements of the Self-Assessment.
The criteria of requirements and elements of Critical Path Analysis have been rephrased in the format of a Self-Assessment questionnaire, with a seven-criterion scoring system, as explained in this document.
In this format, even with limited background knowledge of Critical Path Analysis, a manager can quickly review existing operations to determine how they measure up to the standards. This in turn can serve as the starting point of a ‘gap analysis’ to identify management tools or system elements that might usefully be implemented in the organization to help improve overall performance.
How to use the Self-Assessment
On the following pages are a series of questions to identify to what extent your Critical Path Analysis initiative is complete in comparison to the requirements set in standards.
To facilitate answering the questions, there is a space in front of each question to enter a score on a scale of ‘1’ to ‘5’.
1 Strongly Disagree
2 Disagree
3 Neutral
4 Agree
5 Strongly Agree
Read the question and rate it with the following in front of mind:
‘In my belief,
the answer to this question is clearly defined’.
There are two ways in which you can choose to interpret this statement;
1.how aware are you that the answer to the question is clearly defined
2.for more in-depth analysis you can choose to gather evidence and confirm the answer to the question. This obviously will take more time, most Self-Assessment users opt for the first way to interpret the question and dig deeper later on based on the outcome of the overall Self-Assessment.
A score of ‘1’ would mean that the answer is not clear at all, where a ‘5’ would mean the answer is crystal clear and defined. Leave emtpy when the question is not applicable or you don’t want to answer it, you can skip it without affecting your score. Write your score in the space provided.
After you have responded to all the appropriate statements in each section, compute your average score for that section, using the formula provided, and round to the nearest tenth. Then transfer to the corresponding spoke in the Critical Path Analysis Scorecard on the second next page of the Self-Assessment.
Your completed Critical Path Analysis Scorecard will give you a clear presentation of which Critical Path Analysis areas need attention.
Critical Path Analysis
Scorecard Example
Example of how the finalized Scorecard can look like:
Critical Path Analysis
Scorecard
Your Scores:
BEGINNING OF THE
SELF-ASSESSMENT:
Table of Contents
About The Art of Service7
Included Resources - how to access7
Purpose of this Self-Assessment9
How to use the Self-Assessment10
Critical Path Analysis
Scorecard Example12
Critical Path Analysis
Scorecard13
BEGINNING OF THE
SELF-ASSESSMENT:14
CRITERION #1: RECOGNIZE15
CRITERION #2: DEFINE:27
CRITERION #3: MEASURE:44
CRITERION #4: ANALYZE:59
CRITERION #5: IMPROVE:75
CRITERION #6: CONTROL:90
CRITERION #7: SUSTAIN:102
Critical Path Analysis and Managing Projects, Criteria for Project Managers:127
1.0 Initiating Process Group: Critical Path Analysis128
1.1 Project Charter: Critical Path Analysis130
1.2 Stakeholder Register: Critical Path Analysis132
1.3 Stakeholder Analysis Matrix: Critical Path Analysis133
2.0 Planning Process Group: Critical Path Analysis135
2.1 Project Management Plan: Critical Path Analysis137
2.2 Scope Management Plan: Critical Path Analysis139
2.3 Requirements Management Plan: Critical Path Analysis141
2.4 Requirements Documentation: Critical Path Analysis143
2.5 Requirements Traceability Matrix: Critical Path Analysis145
2.6 Project Scope Statement: Critical Path Analysis147
2.7 Assumption and Constraint Log: Critical Path Analysis149
2.8 Work Breakdown Structure: Critical Path Analysis151
2.9 WBS Dictionary: Critical Path Analysis153
2.10 Schedule Management Plan: Critical Path Analysis155
2.11 Activity List: Critical Path Analysis157
2.12 Activity Attributes: Critical Path Analysis159
2.13 Milestone List: Critical Path Analysis161
2.14 Network Diagram: Critical Path Analysis163
2.15 Activity Resource Requirements: Critical Path Analysis165
2.16 Resource Breakdown Structure: Critical Path Analysis166
2.17 Activity Duration Estimates: Critical Path Analysis168
2.18 Duration Estimating Worksheet: Critical Path Analysis170
2.19 Project Schedule: Critical Path Analysis172
2.20 Cost Management Plan: Critical Path Analysis174
2.21 Activity Cost Estimates: Critical Path Analysis176
2.22 Cost Estimating Worksheet: Critical Path Analysis178
2.23 Cost Baseline: Critical Path Analysis180
2.24 Quality Management Plan: Critical Path Analysis182
2.25 Quality Metrics: Critical