Scrum vs. Kanban: What to Choose?
7 years 5 weeks agoOrganizations starting their Agile journey are confronted with an array of choices. One early decision is, what methodology and process to follow?
The authors of the Agile Manifesto represented many approaches, methodologies, and frameworks. The common theme was that they had uncovered better ways of developing
The 1, 2, 3 of Primavera P6 Baselines
7 years 7 weeks agoPrimavera P6 Professional allows you to assign up to three user baselines and one project baseline per project. The following article explains these capabilities and how they can be helpful in tracking the overall status of a project and near-term interim variance reports.
Take a look at the following diagram (taken from the Ten Six
An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence & How it Relates to Project Planning
7 years 8 weeks agoIntroduction
This paper describes and explains the concepts and terminology behind what is today being termed as Artificial Intelligence. Further, it describes how these concepts relate to the field of project management offering opportunity for better, more effective project planning and control.
What Exactly is Artificial Intelligence?
Culture and Successful Projects
7 years 9 weeks agoProject management has a consistent and unimpressive performance record. The Standish Group’s on-going survey of project performance finds the percentage of projects that were deemed “successful” has hovered in the 25% - 30% range since 1994. Successful projects are defined as those meeting expectations of time, cost, and scope.
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Project fails because of ineffective Work Breakdown Structure.
7 years 13 weeks agoProject fails because of ineffective Work Breakdown Structure.
We have heard repeatedly the popular saying in Project Management “how do you eat a big elephant?” The answer, “one piece at a time”. This is the basic principle of applying what is called
Eliminating Waste in Knowledge Work
7 years 14 weeks agoMany of us are "knowledge workers." We do not physically create a product. We work in areas that are important to our enterprise, but do not directly serve customers. We work in finance, marketing, technology, or similar functions.
As knowledge workers it is hard to see or measure the specific value we contribute. We are busy. But are we adding value or creating
Calculations of Summary Original Durations in Primavera P6
7 years 15 weeks agoBy Yaser A. Al-Bustanji CPCM, ACIArb, PMP, PMI-SP, PMI-RMP, November, 2017
Introduction
This article is a simple guide to understand the data stored in the P6 Original Duration fields that appear in all summary bands such as Project, WBS, Resources and Activity Codes.
Many P6 users think that any summary Original Duration is calculated
How to define Resource Productivity in Primavera P6 and create schedule
7 years 15 weeks agoWhen create a schedule, we can based on Resource Productivity to estimate duration.
For example:
- We have a team which can cast 10 m3 of concrete per day (This is Productivity)
- We have an Foundation which take 100 m3 concrete.
- Duration of Foundation activity will be 100 / 10 = 10 days
Now we will do it in Primavera.
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Understanding the Planned Dates in Oracle Primavera P6
7 years 16 weeks agoBy Yaser A. Al-Bustanji CPCM, ACIArb, PMP, PMI-SP, PMI-RMP, November, 2017
Introduction
Of the many different types of date fields in Oracle® P6™, the most controversial and misleading dates are, "Planned Start" and "Planned Finish" dates of the activities.
There are several fields for start and finish dates in
