Network links go well beyond simple straight lines
This is an insightful piece of project management advice from the trenches. Dennis Smith writes on the "simple line connecting two tasks in the plan... representing a relationship between tasks, and often indicates where one task stops and another starts." "In a project plan, tasks represent what people do, and in any hand off between tasks, there are far more interactions than can be shown by a simple line. Interactions include resolving specification issues, getting “early looks” at designs to generate user feedback, explaining design decisions, providing prototypes for use in models, and a host of other events. With the growing use of virtual teams and offshore resources, understanding and facilitating the actions implicit in those single lines can make or break a project." [thanks Patti Anklam]Permalink | Thursday, July 29, 2004
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