Hi there! I’m a Sr. Program Manager in public safety technology and we deploy software that full suite integrates with large organizations public records, their reporting information, and I oversee the management and execution of the full program.
I just went to my first Cosmos webinar hosted by Vast, which was incredible by the way. And I have a hope that I’d like to run by someone:
We as Program Managers have to generate what we call milestone plans which is essentially an output of critical path items that are attached to mileestones as billable revenue. “We at Motorola have completed x, y, z, and so milestones one, two and three are now being signed off on and recognized as revenue”.
The process we currently go through is extremely manual and time consuming–looking at a pdf of the project schedule, the amount of hours associated to each task by workstream (engineer hours, Project Management Hours, Application Specialist Hours, travel, etc).
My hope was to program something using Google Colab or python maybe that I can load previous iterations of milestone plans into it to train/machine learn-- and then based on a new schedule that has similar critical path items, generate a first version draft of a milestone plan? There would be several constraints (for example, we generally don’t like our milestones any more than 40k, and we dont’ want more than 5 milestones per quarter). There are a bunch of other constraints I would like to apply, but does anyone have a process similar to this that they do? Milestone plan creation, automating a way to tie cost, labor, hours, and tasks based on critical path of the schedule? % completion automation procedures? A way to read a schedule that has durations, tasks, resource assignemnts, start and end dates, etc?
Thanks so much in advance!
