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.