IT Project Management Blog: Chapter 3

Study the WBS and Gantt charts provided in Figures 3-3 and 3-4. Enter the WBS into Project 2003, indenting tasks as shown to create the WBS hierarchy. Then enter durations and dependencies to try to reproduce the Gantt chart. Check your work with the files available on the companion Web site for this text.

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Whilst this task at surface level seems straight forward enough, I found it required a fairly detailed analysis of the information provided especially in the network diagram, to accurately replicate the Gantt chart. It was also a good exercise in ‘getting to know’ Project 2003.

The 'Afterlife'

As we know, all good IT projects must come to an end. As I pondered what will become of this one, my memory cast back to all the times that old hardware met brutally with the bottom of a dumpmaster, or to the dull uneventful signing of the sign-off sheet. Surely this was not what I planned for my ITC493 project, into which I've poured so much of my-self.

It is with that in mind, I propose to have my Project management blog transmitted into outerspace in the hope that a more advanced race of project managers will intercept our signal and make contact to impart us with PMBOK concepts, methods, techniques and tools so superior that it might have taken mankind thousands of years to evolve that knowledge by his own evolution.

On second thought.. I might just copy it into a word doc and archive it for future reference.

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