Purposes of Schedule

From last week to this,I made a plan of our team for project management in 2007.It a hard process,really,I think.You need take care everything about project,such as collabaration,communication,timestamp,customer feedback and so on. And by accident, the chapter 2 is written about schedules.For me, right~!

First,I review the three purposes about schedule:
1.To make commitments about when things will be done.
2.To encourage everyone who's contributing to a project to see her efforts as part of a whole, and invest in making her pieces work with the others.
3.To give the team a tool to track progress and to break work into manageable chunks.

For three purposes, it's very hard to understand when I looked at them firstly.The first, time is focused on. It means we focus on what will happen and what will change,or what will delay.The second,it emphasize function of schedules.It means scheduls inspirit person who is in team,and in another way,it is a forcing functions for project.The last,it's easy to understand as long as whoever have expriences of IT project.

The Art of Project Management

The Art of Project Management , written by Scott Berkun,who worked for Microsoft. It's a good book I bought last year, but I have no time to read it always.
Hem.......Just read 1st chapter completely.
And now,I will make notes from now on,and written my notes in this blog.
Here,open book,make notes~!

Here, there are three point of key lessons from author's inquiries into the past:
1.Project management and software development are not sacred arts.
2.The simpler your view of what you do, the more power and focus you will have in doing it.
3.Simple doesn't mean easy.

And it present what the role of project management are.It indicates the role of project manager is important to the project management.PM is a person who lead the team in figuring out what the project is(planning,scheduling,and requirements gathering),shepherding the project through design adn development work(communication,decision making, and mid-game strategy),and driving the project through to completion(leadership,crisis management,and end-game strategy).

In the book, the more important points refered - The balancing act of project management:
1.Ego / no-ego
2.Autocrat / delegator
3.Tolerate ambiguity / pursue perfection
4.Oral / written
5.Acknowledge complexity / champion simplicity
6.Impatient / patient
7.Courage / fear
8.Believer / skeptic