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  • From: Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>
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  • Subject: [Homestead] Home manufacturing business series, recent post #6
  • Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 09:45:49 -0700

A lot of red meat here, I will confine the subject to the Critical Path Method---applicable to almost any business behone use of an Irish Steam Shovel---round-point shovel and wheelbarrow.


Home Manufacturing Business Series, recent post #6

Management tool---the Critical Path Method writ large on your office wall. Those annoying little laptop screens have their place---you don't have to carry around a box of records with you, but as reference to what you have to do for the day, the week and month, they are damn near worthless---what you need is real visual impact and nothing provides it as well as a huge wall-chart. As a 1950-s tract developer and builder of mass-housing, I found CPM to be invaluable, even in its early stages where less than a dozen tract builders in the United States adopted this style of project management.

Of course, you can still buy four-foot high and wide sheets of paper at your local office supply store, but when Hewlett Packard came out with its capacity for printing banners in color, it made life much easier for Building Contractors, to whom a wall-mounted Critical Path chart is a lifeline.

http://www.netmba.com/operations/project/cpm/ (Dupont originator, quickly adopted by real estate tract developers and mass-builders

http://www.buildersnet.org/cpmtutor/cpmtutor.html (your Critical Path method tutorial)

http://www.ifors.ms.unimelb.edu.au/tutorial/about/cpm_about.html (CPM tutorial, Gantt Chart refinement)

http://www.robertluttman.com/Week4/page5.htm (Process Thinking as applied to Healthcare)

http://www.thebluebook.com/cl/all1350.htm (CPM info from Blue Book of Construction and Building

http://www.interplansystems.com/html-docs/critical-path-method-scheduling.html) (CPM transparency and reconciling two CPM charts)

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/Critical_Path_Method.html (Webopedia on the CPM project manager technique)

http://recenter.tamu.edu/soft/sw1017.html (small, simple, easy to learn, free real estate CPM application)

http://hadm.sph.sc.edu/Courses/J716/CPM/CPM.html (network analysis of problems)

http://www.interplansystems.com/turnaround-project-management-primer/critical-path-method.html (CPM for turnaround specialists---you have a failing business, someone elses (or your own), CPM is where you start to rectify the problems and convert failure to success.)

http://www.pmforum.org/library/glossary/PMG_C12.htm (glossary of CPM terms.)

http://www.maxwideman.com/pmglossary/PMG_C13.htm (Wideman Glossary)

http://www.mycoted.com/creativity/techniques/cpm.php (this and following websites for informational redundancy and comparison---this is specifically related to Housebuilder Contractor projects)

http://www.cob.sjsu.edu/facstaff/davis_r/courses/QBAreader/cpmalgorithm.html (CPM algorithm)

http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:BI9M4QvDngwJ:weblog.halmacomber.com/Fool_Me_Once_Twice.pdf+critical+path+method&hl=en DON'T FORGET THAT CRITICAL PATH CHARTS ARE ESTIMATES!!---THEY HAVE TO BE CONFORMED TO REALITY!!




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