{"id":1947,"date":"2015-06-11T01:47:44","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T06:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=1947"},"modified":"2015-06-01T08:00:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T13:00:09","slug":"on-the-critical-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2015\/06\/on-the-critical-path\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Critical Path"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n

If you are on the critical path of a project, you often behave in ways that don’t seem to make sense.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The critical path of a project means a lot of things to different people. Wikipedia has a good explanation of the concept<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One way to think of the critical path is that the entire project team is waiting for you to finish something so they can continue working. If a task on the critical path “slips” a day, the delivery date for the entire project slips a day.<\/p>\n

Those one-day slips cost a lot of money.<\/p>\n

Hence, when you are working a task on the critical path, time is critical. All other factors are a distant second place. Spend resources to save time. Yes, that includes those<\/em><\/strong> resources as well. And yes, those<\/em><\/strong> resources, too. Yes, that means you can call whats-his-name to get help and you can call him on Saturday.<\/p>\n

And if you are<\/em><\/strong> whats-his-name, you approve the payment of overtime so that people will work weekends to reduce slip on the critical path.<\/p>\n

And if you are<\/em><\/strong> whats-his-name, you will hire someone to cut the grass and pick up the kids after school for the people working the critical path.<\/p>\n

And if you are<\/em><\/strong> whats-his-name, you will do those other things that you’ve never done before or never thought possible and are not covered by company policies and the laws of common sense.<\/p>\n

I suppose that is one reason they call it critical<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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