Project Review

Introduction: Extreme Management

Project evaluation and review is critical to project management. Extreme Management is OSE's version of an open, collaborative method with a focus on documentation of work product. All results are readily accessible in one click from a graphical index/overview platform. Extreme Management builds upon the concept of PERT charts and Critical Path Diagrams, including clear Work Breakdown Structures.

The requirements for open project management platform are:

• Project is readily reviewable by a brief examination of management platform, including one-click access to all content
• Work product is one-click accessible from management platform
• Can be displayed on a cloud-embeddable-linkable platform such as Google Docs
• Project status and work product can be viewed from anywhere and updated readily
• Platform can be embedded into any other platform and that the updates in the display are updated readily
• Work product can be linked to a graphical index of the Extreme Management platform. This adds a focus of documenting work product
• Budget, timeline, sequence, duration are visible

Sample PERT Index

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Sample Tracking Spreadsheet with Gantt Chart

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Implementation

Execution of a complex task follows these steps:

1. Start with a clear Work Breakdown Structure
2. OSE PERT Chart shows milestones, expected start time and duration, and actual end time, dependencies, and order of execution. This constitutes a scope and sequence of a project. Each milestone links to a spreadsheet. Make a copy of the template above and fill in your information.
3. Spreadsheet shows tasks from the Work Breakdown Structure, their predicted and actual times, links to work product, and planned + actual cost. Make a copy of spreadsheet above and fill in your information.

How it Works

1. A project page displays the PERT chart and spreadsheed, and allows anyone to observe and assess overall progress in minutes. Gantt chart in spreasheet shows work status by the day.
2. The single PERT chart is sufficient to access all information about a project.
3. The PERT chart links to a master spreadsheet of tasks.
4. The PERT Chart and spreadsheet are updated with actual times and budgets to allow for learning.
5. The spreasheet shows a Gantt chart, which is created by shading in the days. Delays are shown when the Gantt chart of the Actual row is different from the Planned row.
6. The spreadsheet rows show planned and actual values for the Gantt chart section. Shade in planned days with light green as in the template, and shade in actual values with dark green.

Links

• PERT
• Critical Path Method
• Work Breakdown Structure
• Gantt Chart