Beyond Earned Value Management
8 years 1 day agoIf I asked you what the trickiest part of project management was for your enterprise, what would you say? If you answered managing the diverse projects in your portfolio – you’re not alone. Most businesses work on a variety of projects (whether it be different contract types, duration or dollar amounts) that can be categorized into four major tiers:
- Tier 1 – Projects
How do you put your project team in the zone?
8 years 3 days ago"Individual commitment to a group effort--that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." Vince Lombardi
When you hear about flow and being in the zone, you almost always associate that with sports. The performance improvement of an individual athlete or sports team is increasingly based on science and technology, along with the
How Baseline Dates are calculated in Primavera P6 for Earned Value Management
8 years 5 days agoPrimavera P6 give us an option to decide that Baseline date is equal to Planned date or Current date.
The main purpose of this option is for Earned Value calculation.
I’ll explain that option in this article.
We have a simple project containing 3 activities. Each activity is assigned resource A.
Standard Deviation for Project Managers
8 years 5 days agoStandard deviation is an abstract concept derived from observation rather than calculation or experimentation. The standard deviation (SD, also represented by the Greek letter sigma or σ) is a measure that is used to quantify the amount of variation or dispersion in a set of data values; and is expressed as a quantity defining how much the members of a group
Why Projects Fail
8 years 1 week agoWhy Projects Fail
-a primer on mass mismanagemnet
Statistics cite chronic and epidemic delay and overspend in the building industry is only getting worse over time. Naturally, the bigger the headache, the bigger the pill, and the Olympic Games are a horse pill. As the Games must go on, they make deadline, but average about 167% overspend. Alternatively, infrastructure
Effective Project Planning with Mind Map - Case Study
8 years 1 week agoMind Map is a graphical and pictorial illustration of the interrelated ideas for a common goal or objective. It truly makes its mark for empowering imagination to produce new theme of ideas. Mind Mapping drives people, with a multi-dimensional approach, to generate a consolidated and concentric solution to the problem. Mind mapping is a great tool to plan, gather ideas and generate a
How to use Earned Value Management in Primavera P6
8 years 1 week agoPrimavera support you to control project performance by Earned Value Management technique.
I will show you how to use it in Primavera.
We have a simple project to finish casting 10 column.
- 1 column / day.
- 100 $ / column
Each activity is assigned resource A.
How Google Tango VR/AR Apps Could Level the BIM Playing Field
8 years 2 weeks agoDespite the hype - such as that which I brought to light in McGraw Hill’s
Ten Ways Google’s Project Tango Could Prove to be a Game Changer for the Building Industry
8 years 2 weeks agoGoogle has recently begun making its long anticipated self-3D mapping software Project Tango, available to developers interested in using
Full Phase CPM Schedule Management
8 years 2 weeks agoThe central focus of construction project schedules is invariably on the build-out trajectory, or more specifically, the builder’s work and responsibilities. Despite design deliverables residing squarely within the critical path, they are seldom adequately represented in pre-construction schedules. This practice ultimately does a disservice to the end user, or stakeholders, because it doesn’t
