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Horse Blanket

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Fri, 2010-02-26 16:12
Muhammad Mehmood
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Hi,

I saw the term Horse Blanket in the Project Management Institute’s Practice Standard for Scheduling. The term was undefined in the book’s glossary.

Thanks & Regards,
MUHAMMAD
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Mon, 2018-03-19 19:07
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Juan L. Ramos L.
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Page 6 Figure 2-1 

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Sat, 2010-02-27 04:42
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Samer Zawaydeh
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Dear M.

You are correct, I found the reference in the Figure you mentioned (Fig 2.1, page 6). The filter option does not search the figures apparantly.

I also did an internet search and found the term;
http://www.doubletongued.org/index.php/dictionary/horse_blanket/.

For current practice, you do not have to worry about this term, because it is not used.

With kind regards,

Samer
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Sat, 2010-02-27 00:43
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Ian Nicholson
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I suspect that you are referring to what we call a "Navajo Blanket" - Horse Blanket is probably more politically correct these days.

It’s a cross functional chart - for example a RACI chart or a WBS/OBS (Cost code) table.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_assignment_matrix

Ian

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Fri, 2010-02-26 17:43
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Samer Zawaydeh
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Dear Muhammad,

I searched the standards; no horse and no blanket words are mentioned within the document.

Which page you did you find them at?

With kind regards,

SAmer
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