PM tools or technologies?

Are you using software to track the management of your project? Do you know the features, pitfalls, and potential of your software?

After 115 contact hours with Dennis, you can double check the calculations and graphs that the software is spitting out! Dennis Busch demonstrates how we need to examine the processes that are contained in our tools.

- Critical Path Method, Resource Planning, Earned Value, Integration planning (vertical, horizontal, and cost), and Risk

While most software (word processors and spreadsheets) accentuate the skills that we've acquired throughout school and experience, PM tools are based on technical processes and methodologies that aren't taught in school. So Dennis is "not surprised that almost all knowledge of these methodologies has to come to us from post educational sources."

With nearly 80 different parameters in the software and learning by trial and error, some training in the processes and the software is necessary to understand what the software can and cannot do.

Mr. Busch provided a training module overview of key PM processes to review and consider in the context of software technology versus skills and process knowledge, so that we may take stock of our knowledge in these areas and know what we are missing or might have learned incorrectly.


Dennis Busch, owner of Project Management Technologies (PMT), offers a FREE 2 PDU class on the PMTI website. Mr. Busch has developed a revolutionary new methodology in project planning and resource management found in the book, "The New Critical Path Method - The state of the art in project modeling and time reserve management" published in 1990.