Talk:Schedule (project management)

Same article

This article is the same as in the www.stellman-greene.com website, which is also an external link.

Vishwamithra 15:27, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Lots of spam

The Professional Resources and Project Management firms section apparently has spam. I will take a further look into it to see whether the whole section should stay or not. Pm master 19:46, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

What is the point of this article?

What does this article have that the Project management page doesn't? DCDuring 20:54, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

In Project Management - especially Engineering and Construction; Scheduler is a six Figure Career. Specifically Primavera based Gantt schedules typically hold all the budget, materials, staff, payment milestones, and potentially document control for a multi year multi billion dollar contract; typically with several schedulers developing and maintaining an integrated prject schedule between the client, engineering contractor, OEM, construction contractor, and primary vendors and subcontractors.

On a multi billion dollar EPC job; it's likely to have a dozen schedulers representing many different companies all making better than $50 an hour; many of whom will have PMI or AACE certifications maintaining the project schedule over several years.

This is not just a Microsoft project schedule common in internal business improvement projects, IT, or consulting. Scheduling can be a simple as a 10 man hour budget with a One week deadline; to a billions of dollars over a decade tracking the activities of several thousand workers from dozens of companies building things like Bridges, Dams, and Power Plants. A Gantt Schedule utilizing critical path method integrated with a WBS and earned value system maintained by staff with AACE certification is the requirement for many large scale federal contracts; be it a highway, NASA Rocket, military base or Submarine.

Given time and interest from the scheduling community; this article should be expanded to a holistic understanding of the subject and career field of project scheduling. There are multiple books on the subject to reference, and multiple professional societies that develop, document, and maintain the state of the art. It just a matter of getting subject matter experts to take the time to contribute and cite references.

Copy-paste registration

This edit here was copy/paste from within Wikipedia from here -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 21:15, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

Factual accuracy is disputed

Pm master essentially deleted the University of Wisconsin reference as spam but in doing so, the two references initially provided were likewise deleted.

As Vishwamithra noted earlier, much of the article's content came from the Stellman & Greene Consulting LLC website which is promoting its consulting services and does not have any in-text citations.

On the other hand, one reference that Pm master deleted came from a peer reviewed journal. It was an examination of a survey of 55 IT project managers and 19 experts with 21 references and citations where appropriate.

The following statements are hereby disputed:

1. "In some large corporations, scheduling, as well as cost, estimating, and risk management are organized under the department of project controls."

2. "Many project scheduling software products exist which can do much of the tedious work of calculating the schedule automatically, and plenty of books and tutorials dedicated to teaching people how to use them. However, before a project manager can use these tools, he or she should understand the concepts behind the WBS, dependencies, resource allocation, critical paths, Gantt charts and earned value. These are the real keys to planning a successful project."

Pmresource (talk) 21:16, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Item No. 1 appears to be a copyright violation after a simple Google search of the said sentence in quotation marks.

Item No. 2 is a copyright violation of the Stellman & Greene Consulting LLC website. The editor who wrote item #2 can discuss this issue here.

Thank you.

Pmresource (talk) 17:57, 13 November 2011 (UTC)