Project Weightage Distribution

Sorry for jumping in, even though Charlie is a friend (i just presumed), I have to agree with James.

Just watched a debate (between two presidentiables) a while ago, and I think of it as two Planners laying out their Plans, unfortunately after a while, i realized that it’s something like a talk between an old dog and a young dog. An old dog sticking/standing on his old Plan (which has been tested and proven that did not worked) and a young dog laying his new Plan (brilliantly), but doesn’t really know what would be the outcome.

That is politics anyway, and I believe that "Scheduling" musn’t involved politics. It must be purely Math, with pure results.

i’m not american by the way

James,

That is your opinion that I have to respect.

On the other hand, IMHO, your client, PM etc. are not busy so they have time to indulge in your works as detailed as possible.

My projects are multi-billion USD. My clients are very busy and focus on what they are doing. They hire professional and fired unprofessional, the pretender to be professional.

My PM even told me that when the time comes that he will start to doubts what I’m doing, I better start to look for another job. My PM believe what Im doing and support me because he know I’m professional. People who question my ability ends up like a baby in project management.

Cheers,
Charlie

Charlie,

Thank you for your respect.

To set-the-record-straight, and contrary to what you evidently believe, my PMs are so busy making money, and keeping the client happy, that they have little understanding of how the reporting mathematics work. It is only when the sh*t hits the fan and the client starts whinging, that they examine the programme to discover what went wrong. When that happens, I have to be absolutely certain that my progress reports are a good reflection of what ocurred, and that I can outline the circumstances and results of the project history using the EV. The fact that the PM/Client may not take any notice of the data is an unfortunate act on their part. I can but lead the horse to water.

Our company is one that doesn’t suffer-fools-gladly and will sack anyone who fails to perform. As yet, I haven’t been sacked in eight years - and that includes a project on which I was removed because "...you did nothing wrong... but we had to be seen to be doing something...". On another more recent project, I had my boss say (after four years) "...you were right all along...but don’t gloat about it..". These are the so-called "painful experiences" that they have to go through. Maybe next time......

In the meantime, I just continue to acquire the reputation as the smarmy-git, get paid reasonably well, pay-off my mortgage, drive my new cars, have a near stress-free life, go home every night to my wife and two lovely little girls...and have a totally clear conscience, happy in the knowledge that everyone knows that I know what I’m doing....and if they REALLY want to know, they know who they can trust. Gosh, worra life.....

Cheers.

James.

If we have manhours and machine hours assigned to resources so to have weightage bases on the effort (machine and manhours) for my WBS can we combine the manhous and machine hours( of all the activities under that WBS) and develope % weightage for that WBS

Errata to my previous post:

If we have manhours and machine hours assigned to activities so to have weightage bases on the effort (machine and manhours) for my WBS can we combine the manhous and machine hours( of all the activities under that WBS) and develope % weightage for that WBS.

Later on i intend to use this WBS % to check for my project % completion

Hi Sreejith,

I was just wondering whether you had posted your "progress Tracker" on your blog yet? I like to collect info that could be useful or a benefit to myself or colleagues :)

I did have a look on your site but couldn’t see it...



Regards,
Liz

daison

’Until now using the "equivalent manhour" to determine the phase weightage. Everybody is doing the same? ’

actually we use cost as the weight factor for each phase ( engineering, construction, procurement )

friendly yours