"I need a project plan by tomorrow morning." As project managers, that's what we hear. But we know that what the boss usually means is that s/he wants a project schedule. There is a problem though, how can you come up with a schedule without hav…

Hi, XXX (boss name) Project Title:  Hadoop installation and Data analysis based on Mahout Deliverables: Installation notes for Hadoop and Mahout List of useful references List of important Hadoop and Mahout commands and syntax Demo case step-by-step…

recourse: "Software Engineering", Ian Sommerville Keywords for this chapter: planning scheduling cost estimation Project planning takes place at three stages in a project life cycle: At the proposal stage (When you are bidding for a contract to…

计划不是用来看的,是用来执行的.PP讲述了如何做计划,PMC讲述的就是如何跟踪计划的执行并在实际情况偏离计划时采取纠正行动. 我们先看看SG1,SG1讲述的是如何根据计划来跟踪计划的执行问题. SG1: Actual performance and progress of the project are monitored against the project plan. 中文大意是:根据计划,跟踪项目的实际性能和过程. 那么我们要跟踪计划什么内容呢?简单的说,计划里面写了什么东西,就要跟踪什…

大家都明白这样的一个道理:做事情要有计划,有一个不成熟的计划总比没有计划要好,软件开发这么复杂的活动,更加需要计划.那么应该怎样做好一个计划呢? 如果对项目的范围.规模.性质.任务.工作量.费用等都不了解的情况下,是不可能做出计划的,所以做好计划的第一步就是要把这些东西搞清楚. PP这个PA的第一个Specific Goals,中文大意是:建立和维护用于项目计划的各类参数的估算,英文原文是:Estimates of project planning parameters are establis…

Design doc is the meta data of the code. The project management plan is crucial to your project since it is the basis on which the project will be measured. It can be used to aid in communication between stakeholders and to define the content and tim…

I was recently invited to speak at a conference in Singapore on Effective Project Communications. I'm unable to attend, so I wanted to share my insights on this very important topic in a blog entry. As a Project Manager, communication will occur in m…

One of the challenges of explaining project management to people who are unfamiliar with the approach, is that descriptions are often either so high-level as to be meaningless, or so detailed that they are overwhelming. Over the years, I have come to…

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Introduction The purpose of this paper is to gain an understanding of project management and to give a brief overview of the methodology that underpins most formally run projects. Many organisations do not employ full time Project Managers and it is…