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For last couples of weeks I have been stressed out because I have no long holiday like common people have during change year event. I only have holiday during red date that shown in common calendar. Even my HR manager remind me to get some loose attitude and not working all the time. While it is hard for me to do when I know there is my responsible for me to take care my running projects. Especially during holiday is the perfect time to make project arrangement while most of teachers and students are not in here.

I am not whining or complaining, I am just sharing the situation that I have not more or less.

But lesson learnt that I want to share is, the preliminary project schedule is always open to change. Why? Because when we design and plan the schedule, commonly we divide the weight percentage equally to every week within the time frame not based on WBS or in proper cycle within their step by step dependencies. This is not real while it is ideally will be good, but still is not real.

For me a good project schedule is workable from that we can arrange the resource that we need, human, tools and even construction budget to spent every month.

I know that but the contractor who worked for this project in my organisation did not know that. So what happen actual on site is, from the schedule their work progress is WAY OFF the schedule, but if you see actual on site and sees from item of work remain is getting less. So actually they are not OFF from schedule, even my boss said "you work too fast".

Luckily, in this project we have 2 phases, we divide in 2 in order to balance our finance school year budget in to 2 years. Because they work fast, we already put the next year work into now, so again, this is will level the schedule back to normal speed.

And during these 6 months ahead, I also occupied with another 3 more projects that have a short of period of time. Others said "poor me, because I only has 3 back up resources for these projects" but for me, it is a can do projects because I know my resources skill matrix and we working as a team. Within this year only, my team has manage school projects worth of $7,5 million beside other operational and maintenance projects.

For TRANSFORMER TEAM, I have rolled out my propose working plan which is to stretch questions and mapping schedule into June and change weekly report to monthly report IF team agrees to have exam on June or July 2010.

And the paper assignment will be our main target that need to be finish within this March 2010. So we would not be bother Dr PDG concentration for his new student class group.

And Project Managers need to change their baseline schedule to more realistic target, after that I will submit change order to the client, just like the my reality working procedure.

Have a nice weekend everybody. Remember, Work hard.... Play hard

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# posted by Chris @ 1/16/2010 08:00:00 AM