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…
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.…
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…
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…