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HAPPY THANKSGIVING 2020 CANADA AND EVERYONE! STAY STRONG ALWAYS!

4 years 1 week ago
Many of us are blessed with many things in our life that we seldom appreciate. Sometimes they are huge and other times they are small. Regardless of magnitude, Thanksgiving Day is the time of the year that serves well as a reminder to be thankful. Appreciate what you come to have and even what you’ve lost. In risk-based management, both embody change that can lead to new
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Advanced Stakeholder Modeling

4 years 2 weeks ago

 

No matter your role, you are accountable to someone.  As we ascend the organizational ladder, stakeholder management becomes an increasingly more critical skill.

Stakeholder management is the ongoing process of identifying, evaluating, and engaging the people who are critical to our success.   Stakeholders are broadly defined as anyone

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Cost Estimating

4 years 3 weeks ago

1. Problem or Opportunity Statement

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Budgeting Continuous Improvements and Process Estimating

4 years 3 weeks ago

1. Problem or Opportunity Statement

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WBS Dictionary

4 years 3 weeks ago
Writing the Work Breakdown Structure Dictionary must be done right at the beginning of the project planning stages. This article shows how. https://bibloteka.com/how-to-create-a-professional-wbs-dictionary/
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Considering How We Think

4 years 6 weeks ago

We are living in interesting times. All countries are struggling to control the COVID-19 pandemic.  Societies are challenging their histories of racial and social injustice.  Fundamental beliefs are being scrutinized. Considering how we think and understanding our cognitive biases will be essential as we adjust to this “new normal.”     

What we

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Considering How We Think

4 years 6 weeks ago

We are living in interesting times. All countries are struggling to control the COVID-19 pandemic.  Societies are challenging their histories of racial and social injustice.  Fundamental beliefs are being scrutinized. Considering how we think and understanding our cognitive biases will be essential as we adjust to this “new normal.”     

What we

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A Practical approach to Baseline Programme Maintenance (Revised Baseline) under a NEC ECC Framework Contract

4 years 8 weeks ago

A Practical approach to Baseline Programme Maintenance (Revised Baseline) under a NEC ECC Framework Contract

Introduction

This article aims to discuss the concept of the ‘Accepted Programme’ in the Engineering and Construction Contract (ECC) and the New Engineering Contract (NEC) suite in general and its relationship to the baseline

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Create Value: Map the Value Stream

4 years 11 weeks ago

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.” W. Edwards Deming

Our work and home lives our bounded by standard operating procedures and process—and too many of them stink.  We all have encountered 

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Delay Start-up Insurance to cover Anticipated Profit, Revenue in a Delayed Project

4 years 11 weeks ago

1. What is Delay Start-up Insurance (DSU)?

Delay in start-up (DSU) cover is designed to secure the portion of revenue which the owner:

  • Requires to service debt; and
  • Realize anticipated profit.

It provides protection against delays arising from physical damage caused by any type of peril included in the relevant

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