Contents List of Illustrations ix Preface xiii How to Use the CD xix 1.Introduction I 2.Project Planning . 15 2.1Subdivision of the Work .. 16 2.2 Quantification of the Work 23 2.3 Using Modern Project to Create a WBS . 26 2.3.1 Entering WBS Information 27 2.3.2The WBS Listing Report . 32 2.3.3Entering Task Data 34 2.3.4The Task Budget Listing Report . 37 2.4 Sequencing the Work 39 2.5 Budgeting (Estimating) the Work .. 43 2.5.1Using the Cost Accounts Entry/Edit Tool 47 2.5.2Budget Reports . 50 2.6 Scheduling the Work 54 2.7 The Baseline Chart .. 62 3.Project Monitoring 67 3.1Collecting Actual Expenditures 68 3.2 Cost Reports 72 3.3 Progress Tracking 74 3.4 Progress and Status Reports .. 83 3.5 Scientific Forecasting 84 4.Project Performance Evaluation . 105 4.1How Is Performance Evaluated? .. 106 4.2 Performance Evaluation Reports .. 110 4.3 Variance Analysis 114 4.3.1Cost Variances .. 114 4.3.2Schedule Variances 116 4.3.3Variance Reporting 118 4.3.4The Cost Performance Ratio .. 119 4.3.5The Schedule Performance Ratio 122 5.Productivity Measurement . 125 5.1Unit Rates 126 5.2 The Productivity Ratio . 130 5.3 The Productivity Report .. 131 5.4 The Importance of Productivity Measurement 132 6.Alternate Views .. 135 6.1Expanding the Task List .. 136 6.2 The Expanded Cost Accounts 138 6.3 The Expanded Transaction Eists .. 142 6.3.1New Cost Transactions .. 142 6.3.2New Progress Transactions 145 6.3.3New Variance Transactions 150 6.4 Expanded Budget and Cost Reports .. 150 6.5 The Organizational Breakdown Structure (OBS) . 153 6.5.1Building Alternate Hierarchies .. 155 6.5.2 Exporting Alternate Hierarchies into the Project Database 160 6.5.3Hierarchy Maintenance.. 162 7.Interfacing Scheduling Systems .. 167 7.1 Task Sequencing with Microsoft Project 167 7.1.1 Task-Naming Convention 168 7.1.2 Task Sequencing 169 7.2 Resource Scheduling 179 7.2.1Simple Scheduling 179 7.2.2The Critical Path 185 7.2.3Resource Scheduling . 188 7.2.3.1 How Resources Are Communicated to the Scheduling System 190 7.2.3.2 Using Microsoft Project to Produce the Resource List .. 192 7.3 Pros and Cons of an Automated Interface .. 200 7.4 The Automated Interface to Microsoft Project 204 8.Government Projects . 211 8.1Historical Perspective .. 211 8.2 Government Project Management Models . 214 8.3 Government Project Management Vocabulary 217 8.3.1 Multibudgeting vs. the Tab 218 8.3.2The Meaning of WBS . 220 8.3.3Government Performance Reporting .. 224 8.3.4Additional Performance Measures .. 228 9.Risk Management 231 9.1Quantification of Risk .. 231 9.2 Contingency Draw-Down . 234 9.3 Statusing Contingency Packages .. 240 9.4 Risk Management Summary . 241 10.Rescuing a Failing Project 243 10.1 Determining What Went Wrong 243 10.2 Project Definition 246 10.3 Translating a Definition into a Plan .. 248 10.4 Replanning 250 References ..- 253 Index ..- .. 255