Comments on: No Critical Path! What Is a Project Manager to Do? http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2004/02/10/327/ The magazine for the project age Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:40:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Josh Nankivel http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2004/02/10/327/#comment-12600 Wed, 24 Jan 2007 04:38:57 +0000 http://www.reformingprojectmanagement.com/2004/02/10/327/#comment-12600 I know this is an old post but I'd like to leave a comment anyway. It's so true that estimates are treated as if they are deterministic and set in stone. It's almost like people are surprised when tasks go over. There may be a false sense of security coming from the Parkinson's law, which makes it appear that for the most part tasks aren't finishing early, so there's some phantom characteristic that looks like some certainty. When I learned critical path methods in school, they treated the estimates as if they were deterministic, and it all looked so nice and clean when calculating the critical path, etc. Josh Nankivel <a href="http://www.PMStudent.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.PMStudent.com</a> I know this is an old post but I’d like to leave a comment anyway. It’s so true that estimates are treated as if they are deterministic and set in stone. It’s almost like people are surprised when tasks go over. There may be a false sense of security coming from the Parkinson’s law, which makes it appear that for the most part tasks aren’t finishing early, so there’s some phantom characteristic that looks like some certainty.

When I learned critical path methods in school, they treated the estimates as if they were deterministic, and it all looked so nice and clean when calculating the critical path, etc.

Josh Nankivel
http://www.PMStudent.com

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