Pradip is the single reason the client’s implementation of PM software was successful and won 2 awards. He provided strong leadership, backed the team, cleared impediments to success, and was a vigorous and proactive advocate of the work product. His attention to detail and uncompromising commitment to quality and best practices resulted in a successful outcome I remain proud of to this day.
The improvement in project controls the Port Authority of NY & NJ made in the past decade was largely due to the practices introduced during Mr. Pradip Mehta’s tenure with the agency.
Pradip is a brilliant project controls professional, who masters all aspects of risk, schedule, cost and political skills. His ability to zero in on the important issues and cut to the essence of a complex matter is unmatched in the industry.
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In this paper we discuss proven tools and techniques that are used for the corporate project management by many companies around the world. Everything discussed in this paper is supported by Spider Project software. The certain way of project planning and control is suggested. Corporate project and portfolio management system shall:
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This is one of the first papers that defined Resource Critical Path, Resource Constrained Activity and Assignment Floats and Success Driven Project Management methodology. RCP and SDPM are compared with Critical Chain definition and methodology.
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Project and Portfolio planning and management shall consider all existing constraints that may include:
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In this presentation we will discuss methods and tools of project planning and performance analysis. Some of these methods are widely used and we will touch them very briefly, others are known and applied by advanced teams in complex projects.
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Advanced project management methodology called Success Driven Project Management integrates scope, time, cost and risk management suggesting reliable tools for project planning and performance management.
SDPM is project management and performance analysis methodology developed in Russia in 90-s and since then successfully used in many projects, programs, and organizations in Russia, East Europe and Brazil. SDPM is supported by Russian PM software Spider Project but its basic approaches can be used with other PM software tools.
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During last 20 years popular project management software packages improved user interface, added collaboration functionality and project portfolio reporting but did very little in improving scheduling functionality.
This presentation discusses some features that are required or can be useful for creating and analyzing project schedule, but absent in most project management packages. Most of them are included in Spider Project software and are widely used by project management teams in Russia and Eastern Europe.
"Scheduling 101: Don't Neglect this Essential Planning Tool" by Debra Shelton
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The lack of scheduling knowledge and experience can lead to a few common pitfalls. This article explains some of the main issues.