The new the Complex Projects Contrac
11 years 8 weeks agoThe Complex Projects Contract 2013 (CPC2013) focuses on managing time to ensure projects are delivered to specification on budget and without delays. Unlike existing contracts, which target failure by requiring financial compensation for late completion, CPC2013 provides the procedures to enable parties to manage time, cost and risk events in a modern and proactive
Making Sense of Schedule Risk Analysis
11 years 9 weeks agoPlanning Planet members are invited to a free AIPM Project Controls SIG (PC-SIG) meeting to be held at The Water Rat Hotel, 256 Moray Street, South Melbourne VIC, 3205: http://www.thewaterrathotel.com.au/
Date: Wednesday 20 November 2013, Start 5.30 pm – Start (note earlier start time) Finish 7.00 pm -
Spreadsheet error is normal!
11 years 12 weeks agoThere is not a project in this world that does not use spreadsheets from time to time and many are run exclusively by spreadsheets – in numerous surveys Microsoft Excel is listed as the most common / popular project management tool. And generally speaking Excel gets the calculations it is asked to perform 100% correct. Unfortunately the same cannot be said of the users who set up
Spreadsheet error is normal!
11 years 12 weeks agoThere is not a project in this world that does not use spreadsheets from time to time and many are run exclusively by spreadsheets – in numerous surveys Microsoft Excel is listed as the most common / popular project management tool. And generally speaking Excel gets the calculations it is asked to perform 100% correct. Unfortunately the same cannot be said of the users who set up
What is Schedule Quality?
11 years 33 weeks ago
As a scheduler within various industries, I have been asked “What is Schedule Quality?” In fact, if you pose this question to various project personnel, you may receive more than one answer per individual! Why? Some view “schedule quality” as a simple series of measures and techniques. I believe that the pursuit of schedule quality is a multi-front battle.
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Management By Walking Around
11 years 33 weeks ago
I met a lovely old guy last week at a Fleetwood Mac concert at Madison Square Gardens who was an Attendant there. We got talking while I was getting a beer and he told me he'd worked there for forty years, he remembered when Fleetwood Mac first played there 20 years ago, Led Zeppelin filmed Song Remains the Same, Rolling Stones tours, he'd seen them all, I was very envious
Cost is a management output
11 years 34 weeks agoThe simple fact ignored by most accountants, general management and project managers is that cost is an output from the management process, and pretending cost is a manageable input is a recipe for disaster.
Profit is the difference between the price received for doing work and the cost of doing the work. If the work is accomplished satisfactorily for less then the price that will be
Why the PMBOK is not a Methodology
11 years 36 weeks agoOne of the more common discussions on the web and in other places is focused on arguing the merits of, or comparing, the PRINCE2 Methodology with the PMBOK Methodology.
The problem with the proposition is basic premise is completely wrong! The PMBOK® Guide is not and never has been a methodology. Methodologies define the processes, responsibilities and workflows needed to
PMI Standards Update
11 years 38 weeks agoMost people with an interest will know that PMI have released the PMBOK® Guide 5thEdition, the Standard for Program Management 3rdEdition and the Standard for Portfolio Management 3rdEdition, with an official publication date ofthe 31stDecember 2012. PMI’s other key standard; the Organisational Project Management Maturity
The Case for a Standard Data Reporting Format in a Massive Multi-Contractor Environment
11 years 43 weeks ago
If my team and I were on a mission to standardize our program control software, we might perform a benchmarking exercise. I firmly believe if we performed such an exercise, we would find that one-hundred different organizations would have at least one-hundred-five software architectures between them. In fact, that may be optimistic.
Schedule and cost control tools have
