Total Project Control

I feel also that to have a total control of constuction project



CCS is very good

the estimate is based on realestic resource based estimate...and controling project cost is only control the resources u have budgeted to that project....

CCS having very nice tools to control the project effectively ..as a am planner ...(plannig engineer as well as project control engineer.......

ccs is very best tool for use......

Hi friends,



I feel that to have a total control of constuction project

CCS (construction computer software www.ccssa.com) is good

as it has modules of estimating, valuation, planning, cashflow and site costing integrated to each other.



Best Regards

Muneer

I think you might find Volt Europes product, e-PSO, able to help in this area. It is unique in that it automates the flow of project and programme processes (workflow engine), stores all project activity centrally (knowledge repository) and takes the labour-intensity out of reporting by providing dynamic progress, risk and issues status information (information centre), at the click of a mouse (browser based). It is based on PRINCE2 best working practise with flexibility built in. e-PSO could act as a powerful catalyst for introducing new processes, being electronically embedded into the project working culture. It makes it easy for staff to use by presenting the right

templates to the right project staff at the right time in the cycle. That is reducing any uncertainty, the admin, the

paper handling and the need to plough thru manuals whilst ensuring best working practise is adopted by all concerned.



See www.e-pso.co.uk or e-mail steve.madkins@volteurope.com

Mark,



You are probably correct there are 2 threads here.



I very much agree with you ref CPM not being widely believed in/ used. I find alot of lip service to the idea. Drawing bars is so much more fun! they can be placed anywhere on a page and logic is a complete irrelevance. What we as Planners have to do is to convince people that there are real benefits in using CPM. I very much like the quote that "Planning is all about logic and integration. Planning is not about dates". That is what makes Planning so interesting and challenging for me, being able to understand all the integration issues and seeing the light on peoples faces when they see Planning adding value.



Critical Chain certainly has some very interesting concepts embedded in it, but if we cannot get a CPM embedded in an organisation then CCM has littl;e chance.

Do we have two threads going here ?



Guy,



CCM does sound convincing, however, we still have problems getting people to use CPM. For info. go to Goldratts site. I have not come across it in action yet

Ed:



I am close to finish my web site about Altek system, but it is in spanish. The english version will take a couple of months. I do have info that I can mail to you in english. If you want me to, send me your e-mail. Please bear in mind that this is a service I offer, not a package I sell.



Tomas Rivera

I have come across a technique called "Critical Chain" to help achieve early completion of Projects. Reading the literature it appears to all make sense - but to apply it also needs a culture change to ensure that it generates the results promised.



Have you come across it? Has anybody experience of the real application of Critical Chain and its benefits and also more more importantly pitfalls to avaid when implementing it for the first time.



Thanks in anticipation. Guy

Ed:



I work mainly with industrial buildings, but also with commercial buildings. And more rarely with residential buildings and city infrastructure projects. A fair number of the projects have been with foreign owners, especially american. I live at the border with the State of California, USA.

My Altek System is offered mainly for increasing, to the highest level, the probability of meeting the required completion date. This is the name of the game I am usually playing. Altek System is focused to to what I call high performance projects; projects that need to perform at a high level of efectiveness. Therefore, I am usually involved in projects with a very tight completion date, with a high cost if delayed, sometimes complex or with high uncertainty. or simply projects that for some reason require a high level of daily control.

P3 is the main information processor engine for this system.



Tomas Rivera

Ed:



If P3 is not used by many people, Expedition has even less usage, from what I have learned. I used Expedition extensively in one project about 6 years ago. And after that I trained a construction company personnel on the use of Expedition. I am devoted to offer the services of my Altek Sytem for the detailed scheduling and control of high performance projects. And as a secondary activity, I am a Construction Management consultant. Therefore, you could say that I am a planner and not a project control specialist in the general sense of the word.



Tomas Rivera

Ed:



There is a real good software by Primavera Systems: Expedition. It is a contract control software. You can store, organize and track all kinds of project information, like: submittals, contracts, costs, payment requisitions, changes, transmittals, daily job reports, drawings, to do lists, meetings, you name it.



Tomas Rivera