There is not a project in this world that does not use spreadsheets from time to time and many are run exclusively by spreadsheets – in numerous surveys Microsoft Excel is listed as the most common / popular project management tool. And generally sp...
The Guild of Project Controls is in formation, and most people have a view of what is involved in ‘project controls’ but what is the ‘dictionary’ definition of ‘project controls’? To answer this question, my proposed definition for ‘project controls...
If my team and I were on a mission to standardize our program control software, we might perform a benchmarking exercise. I firmly believe if we performed such an exercise, we would find that one-hundred different organizations would have at least o...
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The scheduling conundrum is simple:We know effective scheduling makes a significant difference to project success and we know what effective scheduling looks like but in most projects, the schedule is ignored, bad scheduling practice is the norm and ...
This is a condition where there exists no free time between activities in the [[schedule]]. A [[schedule]] [[activity]] which has [[Zero Float]] is a [[Critical Activity]].If this [[activity]], or a driving or driven activity is delayed then the [...
NEWS UPDATE...[[wysiwyg_imageupload:1044:height=80,width=207]]Dear Planners, Schedulers and Project Controls Professionals.Here is an update from us with some current and, we hope, pertinent news.Regards... Planning Planet TeamGUILD OF PROJECT CONTRO...
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QUESTION Dear Mr P6 Civils,I know you can promote activity codes in P6. What I want to know can you promote project codes to EPS codes and EPS codes to Global Codes or is it just promoting project codes to Global Codes. I have promoted codes before...
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QUESTIONDear Mr Risk,We run intensive risk workshops every month where we run through an ever growing register of what might go wrong and form all sorts of aspects – quality, finance, war!, subcontractor problems, flood, collapse, changes as well as ...
QUESTION Dear Mr Risk,I have populated my schedule with optimistic and pessimistic durations that sit around the durations assigned in our proposed baseline. We have run our analysis package and produced a very nice ‘normal curve’ with various percen...
These are words of desperation, a client or senior manager who's got his back to the wall.I was faced with this exact situation on a consulting job a few weeks back, the business owner, facing heavy penalties for late delivery was desperate for answe...
What are Activity Codes in P6? Activity codes can be assumed as Categories under which we categorize the activities. E.g. if a project has 3000 activities then it is very hard to manage all the activities or to filter out some specific act...
It is failry common to come across lots of people in planning who are actively engaged in planning but have never visited or worked on the site. This is deeply disturbing. It also applies to other industries as well as you must have noticed. Well, in...
The quality guru W. Edwards Deming said ‘In God we trust, all other bring data’. However, developments in the Victorian Government health system (Australia) offer a salient reminder to any PMO manager on the value of data.Victorian hospitals are rewa...
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The situation where a contractor has been awarded two or more different contracts for different phases on the same site must be failry common because I have encountered it three times so far in my career.It is a recipe for disaster for the Employer b...
A long time back, late Seventies to early Eighties, it was quite a fun to prepare Plans and programmes for Projects. It used to be challenging, creative effort involving lots of hard work but quite satisfying and enjoyable. This went on for quite som...