Why Time Management is Irrelevant in a Project?

In this podcast, Ricardo talks about time management in projects, he explains that many people are tied to time management and comments that the delay acts as a thermometer, but it may not necessarily be a problem in time management and it can result in poor management of scope, human resources or other problems that the project manager may not identify.

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Hello everybody welcome to the five minutes PM podcast today. I like to discuss Why project Time Management is irrelevant. Why we sometimes put a focus on strict time management, software twos for scheduling. And in the other hand, we are still facing poor results. The problem in my personal view is that the problem is not related to time management.

You can see the problem using a time management tools, but your problem is not directly related to. Time why it's so important to make everybody understand that because a time management for me, it's like a thermometer for a key let's suppose that you have a kid and you want to see if he or she has fever. And then we buy the thermometer and we use it. And if we see a high temperature does, will be shown by the thermometer, but the thermometer doesn't show why he or she has fever.

So this is for me, the trick here, So time softer for time Management they are just await of see the problems, but they can not solve the problem because of the problem is not in time. The problem is poor scope management. we don't know exactly the scope of our project. Second team management. We don't know the qualifications and the skills of the team that is doing.

So this is human resource related risks. We fail in our performance because we are not aware of the risks that we are running. So look, each not Time it's not time to time. It's a consequence of poor planning in other knowledge areas. So we need to understand this. And because of this, that I sat by that time management is Irrelevant because it doesn't matter if you will, by a streamline complex software for a scaffolding, or you can use a very high level twos, like critical change, like the critical path method, like all the tools like burn rate.

But the problem is in the other hand, if we don't know what we need to do, and we, we don't know the risks that we are running, we don't have a good team. This will only show our own fever or own fever, but this will not solve our problem and will return us to the good health. So this is what we need to do. So don't make poor decisions based on it. Only in the result of time management project management is above and beyond that.

I hope you enjoyed this podcast and see you next week with another five minutes PM. Podcast.

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