I am looking for an advice or/and opinion on following.
I am filling out PM experience as a part of on-line application for my PMP. I get some crazy big total hours. For example, one of my projects was running for 38 weeks and in Executing and Monitoring/Controlling part of the project I was spending 2-3 hours per day for each of the task for this project which worked out to be nearly 3,000 hrs just for these above-mentioned stages.
What I am afraid, may be I shouldn't, that one project is going to add up to required 4,800 hrs and I still have another 5 projects to go.
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If you worked 38 weeks, 5 days a week, 24 hours a day (which seems unlikely), you would only have a total of 4,560 hours. So you might want to make sure it is realistic. Maybe you worked some weekends and long days, but 38 X 5 X 8 = 1520 hours. Saving Changes...
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What can you suggest as far as 500-characters description of the each project. I found it pretty difficult to fit description in that short form. Do you have an example? Saving Changes...
Don KimPROJECT-TO-PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT EXPERT| Seeking opportunitiesSacramento, CA, United States
Igor,
Those hours cannot overlap. Please refer to this thread where I have a link to a template:
Randa SpellerMarketing Specialist / Chair PM Community of Practice| Union Gas Limited; EnbridgeChatham, Ontario, Canada
I treated it as a mathmatical exercise, and used a spreadsheet. First, pick a percentage of time spent doing project work, eg., 70%, 80% or whatever. Calculate this as a percentage of the total number of hours you usually work, eg., out of 2000 hours per year. Distribute your available project hours by month for each year you are tracking - they should in total equal whatever your yearly number is. After that, identify how many projects you may have worked on during each month, and distribute the total monthly hours among the projects for each month. Finally, you distribute the time among the processes (I think it was 44 when I did my PMP app)... don't have to have time in all processes for all projects, but some time for each process overall. Doing this is time-consuming but easier than trying to keep track of actual time spent in each of the PM processes! Saving Changes...
I see where one young boy has just passed 500 hours sitting in a treetop. There is a good deal of discussion as to what to do with a civilization that produces prodigies like that. Wouldn't it be a good idea to take his ladder away from him and leave him up there?
