Work breakdown structure

Conditioning is system-based.

CPM schedules, once you build the WBS, you're locked in.

Everything is tied to everything at the floor level.

Well, the systems for that building... were two floors at a time, half a floor, and we needed to phase it.

And complexity is the right word.

I

wish whoever invented the WBS structure never joined one of these CPM companies because it is probably the biggest problem that we have in how schedules and CPM are They're so rigid because of that.

It's very hard to...

And he starts by busting that myth that it's all left brain, rational work.

We love our WBS and our EVM, but those tools are run by human beings who get anxious and defensive.

Exactly.

He says the project manager's real job is to manage energy, attention, and relationships, not just tasks.