From the course: The Top 10 Project Management Mistakes—and How to Avoid Them

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Tip 6: Not planning across projects

Tip 6: Not planning across projects

From the course: The Top 10 Project Management Mistakes—and How to Avoid Them

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Tip 6: Not planning across projects

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- Now we come to a very common project management mistake and I think this is the most forgivable one. I think it's fine to have made this mistake but once I show you it, I think you'll be really interested in this and you'll never make the mistake again. And this is that some people don't have a Gantt of Gantts and what I mean by that is some people don't plan for the resources required for all the other projects. So they have a plan for their one project and yes, great, I can do that, I've got enough people, but they forget that they've got other projects on at the same time and if they only had a Gantt of Gantts, it would solve that problem. So not planning for the resources of all of your projects. So I want to show you a Gantt of Gantts on the screen now and you'll be able to see it's just the most brilliant thing. In fact, it's so intuitively obvious I hardly need to explain it to you but I am going to. So the first thing if you look at this, how is project A doing? Tell me…

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