People in Projects

A Reality-Based Set of Best Practices

These recommendations evolved from a scheduling improvement initiative for the Department of Energy’s Hanford Site, undertaken for the Tank Waste Remediation System Project. The government environment compelled certain requirements and processes for the subject program, and recommendations were developed under a process to “design” the system to achieve certain objectives, or outputs. Each prospective technique can be adopted or not, based on how well it serves to implement or enhance a scheduling function that supports discrete objectives for the system to be improved.

Here we present some of the recommendations that resulted from this government initiative. These suggestions generally assume a sizable ...