My Project Management Lessons » January http://www.myprojectlessons.com Lessons learned in Project Management Sat, 28 Nov 2009 02:34:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Closedowns over large holidays http://www.myprojectlessons.com/2009/06/closedowns-over-large-holidays/ http://www.myprojectlessons.com/2009/06/closedowns-over-large-holidays/#comments Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:06:33 +0000 michael http://www.myprojectlessons.com/?p=488 Related Posts
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]]> Remember to allow for close-downs over Christmas.

Many fabrication companies, suppliers, fabricators etc have 2 weeks close-down around Christmas.

For planning a long project you might need to allow a 4 week period of low or no productivity from mid December to mid January, because of the number of people on leave, which means things take longer to get done (such as approvals).

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