CPM Baselines: Where Did Your CPM Baseline Go?
7 years 49 weeks agoCPM baselines are snarky by nature. Many project teams regard them as ends in themselves: issued preliminarily, and then discarded, as opposed to “that to which all that follows shall be compared” (my definition). I expect stakeholders who don’t realize the absence of a baseline bar in their schedules would
Free White Paper: Top Ten Prerequisites of a Schedule Baseline
7 years 50 weeks agoFREE WHITE PAPER: TOP TEN PREREQUISITES OF A SCHEDULE BASELINE
We all want a reliable project baseline for all established processes to work well. The official schedule baseline gives the project a good line of sight to what it wants. Having a good baseline increases the company’s strategic advantage and makes it more successful compared to those who have none. Project baseline must be
Phantom Schedules
7 years 50 weeks agoConstruction planner and scheduler Frank Lee was at it again. He was in the process of creating and developing another phantom project schedule for the Project Control Manager. The initiative started when the Project Manager complained to the Project Controls Manager.
“You’ve got to be kidding me,” he said, “… this schedule forecast and progress report is garbage! It has been almost a yearRain, Flight Delays, and Risk Management
7 years 50 weeks agoIt was almost midnight. Our 3-hour trip from Budapest through Frankfurt to Milan was now a 10-hour adventure. Our bags were coming off the luggage carousel completely soaked. My eyes were dry and uncomfortable. And, I realized I ignored the fundamentals of risk management.
At its core, risk management should be simple:
- On a regular basis, review and
Customer Spotlight: Aerospace & Defense
7 years 50 weeks agoIn 2014, the enterprise software for operating systems across the desktops of a large Aerospace & Defense company was being upgraded from XP to Windows 7. While the upgrade was beneficial from a company-wide technology perspective, it effectively made the company’s current Schedule Risk Assessment and Analysis tool – Primavera Risk Analytics (PRA / formerly known as Pertmaster) –
Distinctions between different project types: Concrete, Occasional and Open
7 years 51 weeks agoBroadly speaking there are three different types of projects and each have different characteristics, advantages and disadvantages. These need to be understood by project leaders so they can identify appropriate resources and tools to manage the project, as well as adjusting their leadership role. The information in this article can be found in more detail in Project Leadership 3rd Edition.
Qualitative / Quantitative Risk Assessment in Primavera P6 EPPM R15.2
7 years 51 weeks agoOne of the good things about being a consultant is being able to find (or build!) more opportunities across a wide range of projects and clients and one of the good things about being part of a leading consultancy firm like Aquenta -http://www.aquenta.com.au/- (a little bit of marketing of course here! :)) is to get
What the DMCA’s New ‘Data Driven Metrics’ Means for You
7 years 51 weeks agoDid you know that the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) is well on its way to implementing new methods for verifying the health of the projects and programs it monitors? This means major changes to current project management and reporting processes for government contractors of all sizes.
On one hand, DCMA’s new methods mean additional scrutiny and higher surveillance. But
