Graeff´s Blog

after having a run through the nice old town of krems and stein I´m back at university – day two of project management course.

Today we´re discussing risk management and some practical lessons.

tools:

treeplan – Excel Plugin for Decision Trees, SensIT and RiskSim

crystal ball – Decision Prediction with Monte Carlo Simulation

@risk for project – also Decision Prediction with Monte Carlo Simulation

gpss – simulation software

arena – also simulation software

Project Management Software

MS Project – MS Project Server

Primavera – very complex but powerfull

Mind Manager – Project Structure Plan

In the evening there was a great Jazz Event in Kloster Und – a local Jazz Formation and Gansch & Roses

Back to Krems on a foggy friday.

today there is project management on our agenda – prof. katzenberger

the biggest issue with project management is the the 1 dimensionality of human´s brain – a good book for this thesis is “the flat world” of abott.

in modern art there is a good example for this issue – Salvador Dali´s Crucifixion

die meisten stehen ja heute nur deswegen, weil sie so eine dicke haut haben – es liegt selten am rückgrad.

network planing

today most of the software is using the PDM – Precedence Diagramming Method – a good tool would be graneda professional

scenario planing

another interesting tool for scenario planing is Szenoplan