An Achievable Project Plan and Schedule

March 2, 2009 | Author: PM Hut | Filed under: Project Plan Development, Team Building

An Achievable Project Plan and Schedule (#4 in the series Requirements for an Effective Project Team and for Excellent Teamwork)
By Dr.Russell Archibald

Effective teamwork depends heavily on having a project plan and schedule that reflects the way the team members will actually do the work. The team must understand and be committed to the plan and schedule, which must be reasonably achievable. The project management literature contains abundant descriptions of how to plan projects. For example, “Project Team Planning and Project Start-Up”1, describes methods for setting the stage for effective project team-working.

1 Ono, Daniel P., and Russell D. Archibald, Chapter 28, “Team Infrastructure Management: Project Team Planning and Project

Dr. Russell D. Archibald, PhD (Hon), MSc, Fellow PMI and APM/IPMA, PMP, is one of the six founding members of the Project Management Institute. Now semi-retired, he has many years of management experience in engineering and operations with a variety of major US corporations in Europe and South America as well as the US. He has made major contributions to the understanding of project management, is author of the best selling 2003 book “Managing High-Technology Programs and Projects” (published also in Russian, Chinese, and Italian), has trained more than a thousand program and project managers and project specialists around the world, and has consulted in project management to clients in 14 countries on 4 continents. E-mail: russell_archibald@yahoo.com. Website: www.russarchibald.com.

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