I sometimes find that the choice of milestones might affect the over-runs that you are seeing. For exmple, it is very common to see a two-year project in which 90% of the work is done in the first year, and the other 10% take another year. Sound familiar?
I'm not sure if this is your problem...
I have a lot of experience in the organisation of manufacturing environments to increase throughput and reduce WIP. The situation that you describe is fairly typical in many manufacturing environments - hence the fanatisism that many companies have for things like JIT, SMED and Kanban.
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Thanks for the advice guys! It's been a great help. Once broken down into smaller chunks the actual plan and manpower seems to sort itself out. One of the problems that i was having was in identifying how much work specialist people can do. This is very difficult with the big 'chunks', but with...
Hi. I'm a bit new to this and you could say that i'm a little out of my depth in my present position. I have experience in project management, but my company have just taken-on a massive project and i have to build an engineering team to take the product from concept to production in 6 months...