General planning comments and questions.
What are Project Controls?
This post takes a closer look at the evolution of project controls as discussed in our published paper Project Controls 3.0. While the modern context of the names project and project manager are relatively recent, project-like endeavors have been undertaken for millennia and needed managing and controlling.
Published in the June edition of PM World Journal, our latest paper, Project Controls 3.0presents an overview of the philosophy of Project Controls 3.0 (PC-3.0), and the reasons why a paradigm shift in thinking is needed to move controls from a complex and detailed reporting function, to a driver of project success.
One of the key drivers built into Project Controls 3.0 is the need to keep work moving. This is measured as the rate of production (work) used in the Work Performance Management calculations.
Our latest blog post Measuring the Unmeasurable – Using WPM to Control Unmeasurable Work! outlines a process for measuring progress using WPM to assess progress in a consistent and reliable way where there is no tangible metric available such as activities involved in culture change, various negotiations and consultations, and integrated CAD design. The approach can be used in a wide range of situations:
- To estimate the remaining duration for work on an activity
Hi,
after many years of using traditional EVM on EPC Projects and always feeling that the effort required to run a EVM system never justified either the claims made for it by it's protagonists or it's (lack of) use in decision making by senior management I have put a few ideas together on how we can improve it's presentation to impart a better understanding of the output and that famous 3-line planned - earned - actual graph.
So the standard SPI, CPI indices (say presented as 0.9, 1.1 etc) now have added fields of
Dear all,
I am unsure if this is a "glich" but I have noticed that if my DD is say 16 October 23, and I have an 20 d activity that should start on 11/3/ 24 and finish 10/4/24 ( I dont want to change the DD as activities are still fluid and being added but some have started and i have not been able to set a baseline yet). If This activity actually started on the 11/3/24 A and then I F9 the schedule - the fiinsh date is showing as the 13 November 23. ( It looks as though it has added 20D to the DD. ?
Is this correct or a glich ?
Dear sirs, I have recently moved from MSP back to Primavera P6.
I am trying to prevent the activity bar from reducing in size when using duration % i.e if the bar covers a 1 month duration with known start and finish date and i apply 20% progress, the bar reduces in size by 20%. and if i apply 100% it ieffectively dissappears I have worked out that if i use fixed work the durtion remains the same size but if I apply some progress the work units do not reduce.
Has anybody got a rule of thumb regarding how much Terminal Float to allow in a schedule where the Contract Date has been left for the Contractor to propose?
Hi,
I have summarised the main activities involved in delivering Process Plant FEL stages from initial Concept Study to EPC Contractor Handover and Client Start Up. I have done it in excel so you can quickly customise it for your own projects, systems and procedures.
