Best route scheduling is an intractable problem, in both the intangible world of mathematics and the tangible world of job shop manufacturing. The contention between multiple jobs and limited resources quickly overwhelms even…
Job-Shop Scheduling Can Assist in Improving Manufacturing Budget Control
Best Practices for Working with NetPoint & the Graphical Path Method
When NetPoint users begin building their first schedules, it doesn’t take long for them to experience many of the benefits that this new paradigm provides. This is because NetPoint and the Graphical Path…
Scheduling a Project at Different Levels
Scheduling a project at the right level, at the right time, is an important consideration in project planning and scheduling. During management-level planning, when executive and senior management are involved, project-level schedules prevail.…
Guide to the Forensic Scheduling Body of Knowledge, Part I
About the Guide This Guide is a deep dive into the practice of forensic scheduling, intended for use by practitioners with an advanced knowledge of the profession and the technical nuances associated with…
CPM to GPM – Easing the Transition
Overview Planning and scheduling as we know it today has been around since the early 1900’s. Henry Gantt introduced the first bar chart in 1910, and in the late 1950’s, Kelley and Walker…
From Asymmetry to Transparency in Project Planning – An Approach to Collaborative Project Planning
At the 2010 PMI College of Scheduling Conference, PMA Consultants’s Timothy Mather presents a white paper detailing how the Graphical Path Method (GPM) and software embodiments thereof enable a heretofore unobtainable transparency in project…
GPM and Forensic Total Float
In this paper, presented at the 2010 PMI Global Congress Conference, PMA Consultants’s Dr. Gui Ponce de Leon weighs the advantages and disadvantages between CPM and GPM’s use as an analytical tool in Forensic…
GPM: A Project Networking Method Anchored on Objectbase Principles
In this paper, presented at the 2009 PMI College of Scheduling Conference, PMA Consultants’s Dr. Gui Ponce de Leon addresses the methodology and logic behind the Graphical Path Method (GPM) and how the emergence of…
The History and Future of Time-Scaled Planning
In this paper, originally published as a part of the 2009 PMI College of Scheduling Conference, John Zann and Timothy Mather of PMA Consultants investigate the historical and current processes used to develop…
A Projectized Mindset: Using Projects to Instill Executive Mindsets in Children
At the August 2008 Ibero-American Conference of the Council for Gifted and Talented Children in Lima, Peru, PMA Consultants’s Dr. Gui Ponce de Leon discusses the idea of Project-Based Thinking and how NetPoint…
Graphical Planning Method (A New Network-Based Planning & Scheduling Paradigm)
In this paper, originally published as a part of the 2008 PMI College of Scheduling Conference, Dr. Gui Ponce de Leon kicks-off a series of treatises on a new, visual, planning-centric process for…
Lost in the CPM Details?
In this paper, written by Dr. Gui Ponce de Leon and John Zann of PMA Consultants, the authors demonstrate the disconnect that often appears between a schedule and reality when using CPM software.…
Project Planning Using the Logic Diagramming Method
In this paper, originally published as a part of the 2008 AACE International Conference, Dr. Gui Ponce de Leon seeks to shine some light back on collaborative network-based planning by advocating use of…