Leadership Practice
Resource levelling can move a project’s finish date
Resource levelling can move a finish date because people cannot perform overlapping assignments indefinitely. Read the schedule assumptions first.
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Leadership Practice
An after-action review works best before memories become a shared story
Run an after-action review that separates expectations from events, invites different perspectives and turns observations into a small set of owned improvements.
Team Learning
The bus factor reveals work that depends on one unavailable person
A team can depend heavily on one person’s knowledge even when it has many members. Use the bus-factor idea to identify fragile handovers without blaming experts.
Project Decisions
A project cost-performance index compares earned value with actual spending
A cost-performance index compares the budgeted value of completed work with its actual cost. Use a small example to avoid confusing spending with progress.
Team Leadership
A work breakdown structure defines deliverables before the schedule
A work breakdown structure organises the project’s deliverables and scope. Use it to expose missing work before adding dates and assigning activities.
Project Leadership
Rolling-wave planning: detail the next stage without guessing every later task
Rolling-wave planning gives near-term work detail while keeping later stages visible at a higher level. Use clear review points to add detail before it is needed.