The aim of effective project management is to bring the project to completion on time and on schedule. Estimating project duration is a key function of scheduling. Individual activities make up the ...

Odds are you have heard the phrase, "Time is money." When you are talking about the length of business projects, this cannot be more true. The less time it takes you to complete one project, the ...

If you're new to Microsoft Project, be sure to check out part one of our Microsoft Project tutorial series. Today, we examine task types and how Project calculates Work, Duration, and Units. What is ...

Any project manager knows that no project is completed in perfect circumstances. So you should use the following process and techniques if you want to make your schedule estimate as realistic as ...

In this paper, we extensively review and evaluate earned value (EV)-based methods to forecast the total project duration. EV systems have been set up to deal with the complex task of controlling and ...