GAO is Wrong
6 years 46 weeks agoGAO IS WRONG:
Activities have hundreds of fields and many might still be active if you only change a few.
GAO Schedule Assessment Guide Best Practices for Project Schedules
Why so many poor schedules?
6 years 49 weeks agoWhy 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
Baseline Change Management
6 years 49 weeks agoChanges 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?
The Cream of Project Controls
6 years 49 weeks agoRecently 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
How to Create a Good Quality P50 Risk-based Baseline Schedule
6 years 49 weeks agoHi 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
Your P6 Actual Duration is Wrong and This is How to Fix It
6 years 50 weeks agoAs-Built schedules are very important project records as they can be used in Delay Claims disputes, generating Norms or Production Rates and benchmarking future project activities hence why a lot of emphasis is placed on activities having accurate actual dates and actual duration. But Primavera P6 users need to pay attention to their User Preferences, else they will be recording wrong actual
Agile and the Product Mindset
6 years 50 weeks agoAdopting a product mindset is critical when transforming to an Agile development methodology, like Scrum. Shifting our thinking from project to product expands our view beyond the confines of the triple constraint—scope, cost, and time. The product mindset forces us to consider the larger, strategic roadmap and the value we want create.
Product vs. Project
The P6 XER File Viewer You Didn’t Know You Needed
6 years 51 weeks agoEdit; ScheduleReader™ (previously PrimaveraReader™) has been rebranded, please see http://www.planningplanet.com/advertisers/schedulereader
When it first launched, PrimaveraReader XER viewer was an intriguing alternative to importing .xer files in your database to view the contents. But the tool was a
We’ve Been Agile for Years, But…
7 years 1 week agoWhen teaching classes on Agile and DevOps, I am always presented with the comment, "We've been Agile for years, but..." The student then continues to describe an organization rife with Agile ant-patterns.
Agile and DevOps are primarily cultural transformations. To "be Agile," we need to unlearn many of our existing management and software development beliefs. We need to
