||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Every serious scheduler should study this book|By John Schuyler|This is the best book I've read about practical project scheduling under uncertainty. While I don't agree with everything, this book provides generally excellent guidance toward scheduling professionalism. Well treated are schedule logic, probabilistic branching, and risk drivers (and other correlation method||This is an extremely important book, which presents a depth of understanding of estimating and scheduling rarely seen in industry. It explains the techniques used in a number of schedule analysis software packages, and encourages a more mature approach to und
Project scheduling is required for good project management, and the schedule represents the project plan under a specific set of assumptions, often that it will avoid new risks or even those that have occurred on previous occasions. The typical Critical Path Method (CPM) schedule assumes that the project team knows how long the scheduled activities will take. Yet, the experienced project manager knows that duration values so precisely stated are actually only estimat...
