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> I've been liking to instead model the dependencies explicitly, and make the project plan a dag rather than a gannt charts. Thats called an Event Chain Diagra

> I've been liking to instead model the dependencies explicitly, and make the project plan a dag rather than a gannt charts. Thats called an Event Chain Diagram and it is the bit that comes after doing a CPA, with or without a PERT. I strongly believe that Microsoft Project is the reason for the incredibly poor quality of project management we generally see in our field. I spent a few years working in organisations where project planning is done properly, by real Project Managers, that understand how to deal with uncertainties around time and effort required to deliver a thing. That was actually glorious and I’m no longer able to tolerate the clowns that saturate our field

doctor_eval 3y ago
> I’m no longer able to tolerate the clowns that saturate our field I looked up Event Chain Diagrams and it is probably overkill for the scale of projects I typically work on. Nevertheless it's much more reasonable than the kind of MS-Project based things I've been forced into working with over the years. Perhaps the worst part of this journey for me has been that I've supposedly been in positions of authority when this has happened. The gravitational pull of what is essentially waterfall project management is so hard that refusing to do it expends significant political capital. So the clowns are out in force even in my little patch, and I laughed out loud when I read your comment.