Welcome to our latest Operations management podcast! Today, Jay Heizer and Barry Render delve into the topic of managing large projects, which is a topic in Chapter 3, Project Management. What makes a project successful? Why do so many fail to meet their objectives? What is a “megaproject”? All three of these questions are answered by our authors.
Instructors, assignable auto-graded exercises using this podcast are available in MyLab OM. Contact your Pearson rep to learn more! https://www.pearson.com/us/contact-us/find-your-rep.html
See you for our next podcast on May 8th for a discussion about the strategic decision making at McDonalds.
I had a friend who worked in project management and he told me that with respect to project time estimates the best thing is to double the time and go to the next time unit. For example, 6 weeks would become 12 months.