One-Person Projects
When is managing a project not project management? When only one person is involved.
A lot of people are sent to my seminars to learn how to manage projects, but they are the only person working on their projects. Now it is true that a one-person job can be called a project, because it has a definite starting point, target end date, specific performance requirements, defined scope of work, and a budget. However, when no one else is working on the project (including outside vendors), there is no need for a critical path schedule. A critical path schedule is one that has a number of parallel paths, and one of them will be longer than the others and will determine how long it will take to complete the job, or ultimately, whether ...
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