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How to quickly identify Behind Schedule and Over Budget activity by Indicator UDF in Primavera P6

7 years 10 weeks ago

In Primavera P6, we can quickly identify behind schedule and over budget activity by using graphical indicator in User Defined Field.

I will show you how to do it.

Supposed that we have a project which has baseline. After update progress, we can show these column the see whether an activity is behind schedule:

  • BL Project Finish : Activity finish date from Project
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Effective Communications = Productive Project Teams

7 years 11 weeks ago

Effective communications are the cornerstone to successful projects and productive teams.   The Agile Manifestoextolls the virtues of collaboration, individual interactions, and face-to-face communications.  Projects represent our ability to coordinate the work of many people to accomplish a goal.  It is no surprise that project

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Driving Project Portfolio Risk & Opportunity Management for Benefit Realization

7 years 12 weeks ago

"Enhance opportunities and reduce threats by aligning sub-portfolios, programs and projects to meet organizational strategic goals"

This article illustrates the high-level components of Portfolio Risk & Opportunity Management. The risk is both threats and opportunity. The main goal is to minimize threats and maximize the opportunities for an organization.

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How to assign resource / resource loading / make resource plan in Primavera P6

7 years 16 weeks ago

In Primavera P6, after finish creating the schedule, you may need to assign resource to activity to make the resource plan.

I will show you how to do it.

Let say you have a schedule like in below picture:

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Stakeholder Management: A Key to Project Success

7 years 16 weeks ago

Projects with involved stakeholders are far more likely to be successful.  But many projects suffer from low engagement from executives, users, and key stakeholders.

The PMI’s Pulse of the Professionsurvey found that projects with high executive

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GAO is Wrong

7 years 16 weeks ago

GAO IS WRONG:

Activities have hundreds of fields and many might still be active if you only change a few.

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GAO Schedule Assessment Guide Best Practices for Project Schedules

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Why so many poor schedules?

7 years 19 weeks ago

Why so many poor schedules?

Schedule logic is not the issue, what makes our schedule models so poor is how we deal with resources. Without resources nothing is done.  Schedules that do not take into account all resource constraints are incomplete and most probably wrong.

We favor simplicity over substance and give the project manager very poor schedules he

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Baseline Change Management

7 years 19 weeks ago

Changes to the Baseline must be accommodated so that the baseline accurately represents the current plan. Timely incorporation of changes is necessary so that managers are not tracking to obsolete plans and generating "false" variances.

Baseline Change Management Procedure

To keep baseline variance can be a monumental task in complex schedules. Is it worth it?

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The Cream of Project Controls

7 years 19 weeks ago

Recently there was a tremendous opportunity to learn from one of today’s premier project-control advocates and thought leaders on a topic most project professionals may very well be occupied with on a daily basis.  Lessons from experience have taught this author that every opportunity to hear

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How to Create a Good Quality P50 Risk-based Baseline Schedule

7 years 19 weeks ago

Hi All,

https://lnkd.in/gfnqr8s Announcing the publication of my second book "How to Create a Good Quality P50 Risk-based Baseline Schedule." It is available in

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