Fernando PortesPrrincipal and Owner, Best Project Management
Fernando Portes, MBA/MEng/MPS/PMP/CQE, is an experienced project/program…
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In 2008, I was hired to manage the start up of a $240 million facility for a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical organization. The construction and commissioning and qualification (C&Q) of the project had been managed by two other organizations, which had created a combined master schedule with more than 14,000 activities. My task was to integrate the work of sevens teams into the plans. On Day One, I informed the client that the project plan would be less detailed, and that all schedule activities would be presented in a poster size (24”x32”) Gantt chart.
All projects have schedules that detail the activities — work breakdown structure (WBS) — that will be …
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