will Hurricane Sandy lead to a resurgence in time-centric scheduling?

let me explain what I mean.

在过去的帖子中，我提到了从1950年代60年代 - 70年代的“需要速度”的转变，以将项目安排到80年代 - 90年代00s的“问责制”和“最佳生产力”。

或甘特条形图40年代和50的时间表s, developed to speed the turnaround of a chemical process plant (such as at Du Pont) or military R&D project (such as for the Polaris Missile System,) was found to be too slow to react to changing conditions, leading to missed opportunities when progress was better than expected and greater negative impact than need be when things did not go as well as planned.

开发了包括CPM和PERT在内的新数学过程，可以更快地做出反应 - 比较旧的手动重新安排方法快40％ - 并为项目负责人提供了更快，更快的调度方向。

根据需要修改这些新过程，以允许死记硬背的计算机执行。因此，CPM是为Du Pont和Pert开发的。计算机改善并增强了功能。CPM和PERT软件再次进行了修改，以最好地使用这种新功能，并开发了该工具，以满足从建筑领域到我们的NASA计划的“速度需求”加速项目，以“将一个人置于月球结束之前18luck官网十年。”

Acceleration when one could and quick mitigation of delays when one must were the basis for our Planning and Scheduling industry.

But as we entered the 90s, the industry shifted from a “finish faster” approach to one that stressed improving resource allocation and productivity.
Part of this may have been the taming of inflation of the 70s and threat of cost escalation, and part to consolidation of larger engineering and construction firms hoping to leverage the synergies of their enterprises as more profitable than the relentless pursuit of speed of the original algorithms.
（请参阅我们的先前博客Oracle's P6 R8 – A Successful Operation, but Let's Make the Software Model How We Want to Do the Workfor how the current algorithm of predominant scheduling software is tuned to best productivity rather than best speed).

The devastation caused by Sandy, especially in the NYC region, will once again create a need for scheduling for best speed.

Returning the subways, tunnels, substations and other infrastructure of the Big Apple, as well as industries, businesses and homes along the New Jersey to Maryland coast are projects that all “need to be finished yesterday.” Real (and not make-work “Stimulus”) jobs will be created to fill real needs.

The purpose of the jobs will be to rebuild the infrastructure and civilization compromised by Sandy, and not merely to maintain (WPA style) employment. Our industry may demand – and this time get – the scheduling toolswe需要，也不被告知使用为重复过程的工厂底层设计的工具。

So I saydemandof your scheduling software vendor the original 1956 “interruptible duration” algorithm designed for our “need for speed.” If your spec requires enterprise scheduling for reporting purposes, do so, but also run real “CPM” scheduling to accelerate your project.

The College of Performance Management (having split from PMI Project Management Institute and re-incorporating under their original name) had planned their first re-independent event for October 29-31 in Washington DC. Sandy resulted in this event being cancelled, but the organization, along with its Marriott Hotel host, are working to reschedule for December 10-12 at the same location. Please checkhttp://www.mycpm.org/for more information.

YourConstruction CPM Conference, set for January 27-30 in New Orleans, continues to grow in size as other groups join with us to make this event (sandwiched between 1stweekend Mardi Gras and Super Bowl Weekend) into a fantastic education and entertainment venue.

Courses from Oracle University in P6, in ASTA, and separate User Meetings of PMA Netpoint, Synchro and Acumen precede the conference, as well as parades that pass our hotel on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. We expect over 300 attendees to attend our nearly 100 sessions spread over three full days. More information is athttp://www.constructioncpm.com/.