Using decisionAccelerator for Zero-based Budgeting
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How can Zero-Based Budgeting be implemented? We will show you how using decisionAccelerator, part of FTTM Tools.
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Use a Mission Statement and Doneness Criteria to Provide a Check and Balance
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Why define a mission statement for a project? This post explains why.
Read MoreThe Long Pole
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The long pole in the tent holds the tent up. It determines the height of the tent. The long pole in a project is the critical path. It is the longest contiguous path, from start to end, that forms the overall project duration. The long pole in the project tent drives the end date.
Read MoreCritical Path Method (CPM) Basics
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The following is an overview of Critical Path Method (CPM). The critical path is the longest contiguous path to the end of the project.
Read MoreRefresh Planning
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Refresh Planning is a core practice of fast teams. Refresh Planning involves three steps; update, break-down, and pull-in. It’s a weekly team activity. They look back in time to record what they did and didn’t get done, then decompose near-term long duration critical path tasks, and then use the more granular and detailed schedule to reconfigure the work in order to accelerate it
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Prioritizing Alternatives in AHP
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Describes how decisionAccelerator prioritizes the alternatives using AHP.
Read MoreInstalling Solver for decisionAccelerator
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I get an error “Compile error in hidden module” when launching decisionAccelerator for the first time.
Read MoreDetermine Your Version of Microsoft Project
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Shows how to determine your version of Microsoft Project.
Read MoreKilling Excel After a fastProject Error
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How to kill an Excel process after a fastProject error.
Read MoreRefresh Planning Assessment/Checklist
/We have been using this checklist to assess the effectiveness of team Refresh Planning. The checklist identifies 24 aspects or practices used in the Refresh Planning process. These include Timing, Participation, Pre-Refresh, Update, What Changed?, Pull-in, Post Refresh, Analysis, Follow-up, and Reporting.
It is designed to be used as a learning tool. Score your team and use it to improve.
Common CPM Scheduling Mistakes
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Critical Path Method (CPM) Scheduling mistakes we observe in many schedules, those built prior to lateralworks FTTM Scheduling training. These include 1) no contiguous critical path, 2) negative float, 3) date constraints, 4) wrong updates (of actual progress), and 5) no successors. Each individually or together result is inaccurate / wrong critical paths, and therefore potentially wrong dates for key milestones. The result is a schedule that can’t be used as a management tool and can not be trusted. This post discusses each problem.
Read MoreThe Lookahead Report
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The Lookahead report is used to, 1) Gather update information for the Refresh and 2) List the coming tasks until the next Refresh. This post describes the Lookahead report.
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Options in fastProject
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fastProject behavior can be customized be setting various options.
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fastProject Crashes After Installing
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I just installed fastProject and it keeps crashing when I try and run it.
Read MoreSummary Tasks in Microsoft Project
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Summary task durations in Microsoft Project can sometimes be confusing. This post explains how to interpret them.
Read MoreGenerating a Cost-Benefit Curve
/The constraint change doesn't work when data is filtered. It works though when unfiltered, then select several rows of data, but it is a bit inconvenient to do that rather than filter."
Read MoreCopying Objectives to Other Models
/I want to create a top-level model, then copy those objectives to other models (sheets) within the same file. The other models may have additional objectives as well as the "main" objectives.
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