This wouldn’t be the same Dave Morrow that worked for Morgan=EST would it?

Sorry Chris,

you only prove how idiotic you are.

A lot of people advised you already, but, you don’t understand.

So the point you are trying to prove is: Chris Organ is the most idiotic member in PP.

Chris Organ cannot understand simple english as convey by a German: Mr Dieter

I’m really so sorry for you and the whole PP world feel sorry for you Mr. Chris

Cheers,
Happy Planning and Scheduling

Chris Organ,

congratulation,

You have one convert: as idiotic as you are

Mr. Mike Teste

cheers,
Happy Planning and Scheduling

Charlie,

I do believe that you are the only person I have encountered who can combine arrogance with self-pity. There is only person who is humiliating you, and that is you, with the self-evident ridiculous nonsense that you post.

When people don’t accept you at your own valuation you label them imbeciles and indulge in the most juvenile name calling. When people recognise you for what you are and respond to you accordingly you go on to make threats. Charlie for a man approaching fifty you really do need to grow up.

Chris Oggham

Hi R

...given that the "expert forensic planners" in PP are also not happy with the other.

Are you implying that C-JO is an expert forensic planner? He can’t even explain a simple ALV process.

Best regards

Mike Testro

Chris & CJO,

It seems there’s a thriving irrevocable hate between you guys. No EOT is sufficient to reconcile your emotions, given that the expert forensic planners in PP are also not happy with the other.

Good luck then.

Best regards,
R. Catalan

Hi R. Catalan,

Don’t get affected by CHRIS ORGAN post towards my post. He has beenn doing this for the last 4 years since I started or join PP. He even conspired with other PP members to have me kick out or terminated from PP.

some great planners who follows his line of thinking, have sympathy with him, lost that criticcal thinking and they just becomes imbecile like what he is now.

I don’t think that this will stop him. Basically, I disregards his post, he is just like a child wanting so much to get my attention.

But I’m a very busy man, I cannot afford to lost time.

So Mr. CHRIS ORGAN, the ball is in your hand. You have to choice. Please figure it out. No need to waste my time.

cheers,
Happy Planning and Scheduling

R Catalan,

I understand the point you are making - ignore Charlie and eventually he’ll go away. Unfortunately, in the time it would take for him to go away others might see his racist and homophobic diatribes and believe that these are acceptable on this forum and use it for just that sort of purpose.

In order that this doesn’t happen, people try to make it clear to Charlie that this sort of behaviour is unacceptable, as bluntly and forcefully as they believe is necessary. No-one is trying to prevent Charlie from holding opinions, no-one is trying to prevent him from making useful contributions to the forum.

However, the ignorance and vindictive spitefulness of some of his posts are beginning to erode people’s tolerance, and I for one would not like to see someone make a post about his behaviour in terms that they would deeply regret later. So it is necessary to slap him down hard whenever he becomes too obnoxious.

Chris Oggham

Oh Charlie..
Lots of men on you..
Time to call your ’Angels’ dude !
:)

Chris just says what everyone else is thinking!!!

Hello.. somebody please rename the thread as :

"How to customize font sizing in PP posts" or "Charlie V/s Chris"

Lol !

Hi Guys,

It looks as if the secret is out. I only hope Charlie doesn’t use it, to have him shouting as loud as Ravi would be quite wearing.

Chris Oggham

Sorry for the previous post. Font size selected was too big. May I request admin guys to delete it please.

Mike, if u hav 2 learn different formatting styles from any given web page, save the web page on ur PC and then open it with Notepad. U can find the entire HTML code for the page. All formatting line starts with <> and ends with with letters in those brackets like u can add b to get bold letters or i to get in italic

Hi!
@Mike : Thank you for the nice words.
I really dont want to go for deep specialisations like ’forensic scheduling’.
I am just 27 1/2 and I think there is a long way to go ! :)

How ever data analysis & interpretation are areas of great interest for me.I am also doing bit research on alternate/unconventional data visualization techniques.My latest (completed) work is on representing 4 parameters in a X-Y plot using Excel bubble charting.This was used for SPI plotting for multiprojects. Clients are liking it a lot ! :)

I am here to learn from experienced guys like you.

Thanks Charles for pointing to AACE RP, I have downloaded them all and just going to have a look at them.

Anybody gone thru the latest PMBOK 4th edn..
I have it & it has just grown double the size than previous edition !

You may take a look at my blog reg. new PM standards , when you have a moment.

http://pmkarma.blogspot.com/search/label/PM%20Standards

Cheers!

Sreejith

Chris,

A bit like this, but with bigger number?


Mike,

When you say you’ve never come across multiple Critical Paths, are you talking about entirely discrete Paths, or one path that diverges and converges shortly after?

Certainly in the Nuclear Industry, I’ve experienced on a few occasions where the Safety Consultants and Designers have been working on a Safety Case and underpinning Design information, their paths have (entirely coincidentally) shared the CP. Although this may be partly due to the slightly archaic ways of working of our Clients, who believe the Silo mentality still rules.

Hi Chris

How did you get that lovely noisy font into the text?

Best regards

Mike Testro

Bravo Chris,

If that will make you happy to release your suppress emotion, well and good to everyone. At least you now found solution to anger management. Cheers, smile and be happy now.

But I’m not intimidated. We have moderator who will make the decision.

the bottomline here is that we have two school of thoughts in the application of forensic schedule analysis

The AACEI way of doing forensic planning is sophisticated compared to others.

Of course it is only natural because it comes from the US of America.

Regards,
Happy Planning and Scheduling

AACE have already done a tremendous job when it comes to scheduling, forensic analysis, professional accreditation and many more. They’ve got tons of helpful presentation/exhibit during their annual meeting which, the last one was held last year in Toronto. The only thing I want to do but impossible to do during the meeting is, to sit and listen to all presentation.

I believe the next annual meeting is in Seattle, Washington.

BTW,

It is a free download in pdf format. I donwloaded all AACEI Recommended Practice.

just go to google, type AACEI

then look at the technial, then look at Recommended Practice.

Actually, there are lots of recommended practice, which I believe, most of us may not be able to practice in our lifetime.

So it is a choice, which one will be your preference to master.

I also expect not to receive such post with request "please sent me a copy to my email: charlieorbe@yahoo.com, etc., etc.,

Cheers,
Happy Planning and Scheduling

Hi Sreejith

You are right in your approach and your comments are valid - particularly about a Judge rejecting a programme because the logic was wrong - this happens all the time and most recently in the Shepherd v City Inns case in Scotland.

This is a common peril for delay analysts.

You also said:

"The best way is arriving at a percentage breakup of the delays caused by each parties for a particular activity.
(Eg: 75% delay due to late delivery/partial delivery of materials by client , 25% due to loss of productivity for contractor labour force"

You are into the relams of concurrent delays which are particularly tricky.

In this scenario you have to determine which was the 1st cause of the delay:

Did the late delivery start after the activity had started or before?

If before then that event should be impacted first and the delay result noted.

Then you apply the loss of productivity and note what that result was.

You can now apportion culpabilty reasonably accurately.

You seem to know quite a bit about delay analysis - why don’t you do what I did 10 years ago - call yourself a forensic delay analyst and put your rates up.

Best regards

Mike Testro.

Hello all..
I think we all are popping our-royal-self into PP site to enhance our knowledge, to network and to catchup the latest happenings in our domain.
I am not against fun , but lets discuss relevant things under each thread.

Forensic Analysis in planning is an ’dreadful’ and ’complicated’ thing for me. Reason is insufficient data/logs ,poor schedule which does not clearly depict scope and variations, lack of regular updation of schedules.

The safest way is:
1) catch scope variations as and when they occur & get client signature on variation orders/reports/log.
2)Issue delay & early warning notes to client & get acknowledgment for receipt.
3) Record delays & reasons for delays in weekly progress review meeting minutes.
4) Update schedule against baseline and send to client every week (And acknowledge it!)

Its not very easy to follow the above things. Quantifying ’delay caused by client’ is a difficult task since there can be other reasons for delay (as argued generally by the client like :
1) use of less or less productive labour by contractor
2) Lack of proper coordination by contractor
..etc
The best way is arriving at a percentage breakup of the delays caused by each parties for a particular activity.
(Eg: 75% delay due to late delivery/partial delivery of materials by client , 25% due to loss of productivity for contractor labour force)

A forensic schedule may be rejected by tribune / judge , if they found logical relations improper!

I am not a forensic scheduler or analyst , but I have come across situations where I have to prepare EOT & Delay claims!

Be prepared to get ashamed .. if you dont have the eye for details and good logic ... in forensic scheduling !

Good luck!

Quite right Mike, I am still trying to get my head around how somebody can be so blatantly ignorant

Hi Charleston

Alexander the Great was a homosexual.

If you carry on like this - with or without capital letters - I will work to get you off the PP site.

SO STOP THIS SORT OF THING NOW.

No regards or respect at all.

Mike Testro

Hi Mike,

IMHO means "In my humble opinion"

I agree with you in your interpretation of homo sapien

By the way, the homo sapien in my post means "

"Homosexual". I don’t want to use the term anymore because in one of the many post I made, I got blundeon because I lower the status of homosexual. And I was attack branding me a racist, sexiest or whatever aggresive and offensive terms they did to me.

So homosexual cannot be a the best forensic planner because they are confuse individuals, so they cannot think logically due to the nature of their mind, very confuse. Also they do not have balls, because they think they got the human anatomy of the other gender.

I maybe attack again but this is my humble opinion., but what to do? I’m just trying to explain to you.

Regards,
Happy Planning and Scheduling

Hi Charleston

I consider myself to be of the homo sapiens (latin for intelligent man) species.

But what is IMHO?

Best regards

Mike Testro

Hi Trevor

There is nothing wrong with scavengers - they do a great job clearing up the mess left behind a crash.

If the project was properly planned and monitored from the beginning I would be starving.

But in all my years of experience I have only come across two contract programmes that were fit for purpose for delay analysis.

And those two were my work at the start of the job.

Our role is to determine what actually happened and what was the cause and effect of delays to the work.

We then assist the tribunal to determine who was to blame.

The basic processes are simple but the complexity is when there are multiple causes of delay on different work fronts.

We do get paid well but that is because not many people can do it properly or have the balls to stand up and defend their expert opinion in open court.

You are only as good as your last case.

Just recently two different maestro’s on £300.00 an hour plus - lost spectacularly and are now in the outback picking at dead meat.

Best regards

Mike Testro.