If this person cannot resolve an issue quickly (within the day), they escalate the issue to a fast-track issue resolution daily process meeting.

Every task in a project is connected to stakeholder needs. The plan is reviewed to ensure that all stakeholder needs are met.

It signifies that they are trying to plan and manage the work, rather than the project.

What percentage of my resources are allocated to projects? This is important because typically my resources have other responsibilities

In the short term (e.g., over the next four to six weeks), do the project requirements across all projects show any overloading of the resources I am responsible for? How much overloading is there (i.e., are they loaded to 125%, 150%)?

Use protection for non-critical paths in the project only where variability is either high or unpredictable.

Currently available software does not calculate the changing project buffer requirements over time, but it is not difficult to determine the needed buffer and region sizes with a spreadsheet.

Step 4 is not complete until all pathways have had the forward pass performed.

Learn and use the basics within a couple of hours Buffer projects holistically (at a project or subproject level, not at a task level) View resource demands globally (across all projects and portfolios) Use a common resource pool definition Use and save templates Work together on projects globally (in today’s delivery mechanisms, this implies cloud