alicecbrown said:
We all have tasks that don't succeed on the first try. A review of the SRS
produces 40 major Action Items, thus requiring more work by the engineers,
and another review. How do you show this on your schedule, i.e. contingency
planning)?
alicebrown,
The only thing you can do is to lay the new tasks into your existing
plan. If when you first develop the design process you expect to acquire
additional tasks based on design review action items, but you don't know
specifics, you can put a placeholder task into the initial plan. The
duration and work effort, and perhaps even the estimated cost, of that
placeholder task could be based on historical data from a similar review
on a previous project.
Life is dynamic and so are the schedules that attempt to model real
life. That is why the project manager must continually review the
existing plan to determine whether it is still valid based on how
execution of that plan is unfolding. It is a rare schedule indeed that
does not need re-planning once things get under way, particularly in the
development world where the original concept may not turn out to be
viable.
John
Project MVP
