![]() ![]() No, Google does not have a native software or app designed for project management. The answer is, “No, but kind of.” Google Sheetsīefore you Google that, let me explain. Ask them to ‘Yahoo’ something and -you guessed it- they’ll Google what that means.īecause it’s so pervasive, a lot of project managers assume that Google has its own project management apps and tools. Ask someone to Google something for you, and they’re on it. You know that something has become a phenomenon when it’s also used as a verb. Download the Project Plan Template for more slides on the Impact and Effort matrix, Project Portfolio, Status Reports, Stakeholder Registers, Task Prioritization, and many more to save time and hours of work.Google is the most popular search engine in the world. If the tools to make a solid project plan are in your way, you need this presentation. While 80% of projects don’t set baseline schedules, this extreme attention to timeline made all the difference. The solution: pour the concrete into five-foot blocks, then use pipes to pump cold water through each block to cool it enough to pour the next block on top of it. ![]() They would have to break up this large task across multiple, smaller tasks in order to reach their target end date. This was the critical path needed to overcome to finish on time. In order to stay on track, the project planners also had to get around another critical issue: the dam required so much concrete that if they poured it all in one block, it would take over 125 years to cool. So workers started six months ahead of schedule and lived in a “rag town” while they waited for utilities to be piped in from 500 miles away. Because they started in 1931, two years into the Great Depression, they had access to a wealth of workers looking for a job. Since one required concrete and steel and the other required lumber and food. *If this was visualized on a PERT Chart, the project planners could see that the two tasks were dependent without resources, as noted by the blue arrows in the above visualization. One of the ways the project saved time was by not waiting for the town to be built before they started work on the dam. This incentive mandated that they find ways to stay on schedule - great motivation for any project plan. Then, they faced fines for every day they went behind schedule. So how did the Hoover Dam end up two years ahead of schedule? While the Dam was the largest government project in history at the time, in order to win the bid, the Six Companies group had to put up the first $5 million themselves. They not only had to build a dam, but they had to build an entire town to house all the workers to build the dam. ![]() A great example of this is actually what happened when the Six companies company started the Hoover dam project. You still need a website to sell your product, but you don’t need a website to make your product - unless your product is a website. (Slide 5)įor instance, think of how a product launch is directly dependent on a feature test but is indirectly related to a product website. Dependent without resources refers to when the tasks aren’t connected to each other but still relate. The arrows also dictate whether something is directly connected versus dependent without resources. Instead of a GANTT Chart that flows left to right in a timeline format, tasks might not be solely sequentially dependent, as you might have to go back and repeat work on one task that changes a future task and vice versa. A PERT Chart is a visualization that tracks these various tasks in a freeform flowchart to show their dependency on one another with arrows. That’s because many tasks are dependent on one another - even those that don’t happen in order. However, even the tasks you do plan for can hold your project back. ![]() Without a thorough scope, you could find yourself adding activities to a project, that then extends the timeline, which puts you behind schedule, and then all of a sudden you understand why government projects take so long! Except not the Hoover Dam - which we’ll cover at the end of this article. The first step in any project plan is to ask, “What is the project scope?” Project scope is a detailed account of all the project’s elements, like related activities, resources, timelines, and deliverables. ![]()
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