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We’ve Been Agile for Years, But…

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When teaching classes on Agile and DevOps, I am always presented with the comment, "We've been Agile for years, but..." The student then continues to describe an organization rife with Agile ant-patterns. Agile and DevOps are primarily cultural trans...

Jul 11, 2017

The P6 XER File Viewer You Didn’t Know You Needed

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Edit; ScheduleReader™ (previously PrimaveraReader™) has been rebranded, please see http://www.planningplanet.com/advertisers/schedulereaderWhen it first launched, PrimaveraReader XER viewer was an intriguing alternative to importing .xer files in you...

Jul 24, 2017

FREE WHITE PAPER From PM Solution Pro

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FREE WHITE PAPER From PM Solution Pro (https://www.pmsolutionpro.com) “Remember this! Plan to Schedule, Schedule to Plan” underlines the misconception plaguing all fields of management. It briefly explains that a clear line of sight must always exist...

Apr 30, 2018

Three (3) Project/Business Management Books to Keep You Grounded

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https://pmsolutionpro.com/three-3-project-business-management-books/ Improvements to project management human dynamics starts with the quality of its resources. The qualifications of the resource influence the outcome of the endeavor. Like it or not,...

Apr 30, 2018

Waging the War Against Burnout—Infographic

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Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s…a Super Project Manager!True, they don’t wear capes or leap tall buildings in a single bound. But today’s Super Project Managers are fearlessly fighting back against the sworn enemies of project su...

May 10, 2018

Enterprise Project Management and Governance

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Enterprise Project Management enables control within projects and programmes, management of constraints and resources across the portfolio, and assurance. However – if it’s not supporting decision making, half of the value is lost – and if your decis...

May 25, 2018

Project Portfolio Management: Simplify the Selection Process

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Many organizations struggle with project portfolio management (PPM).  On the face of it, portfolio management should be easy.  We want to align our fi\unding decisions to the organization’s strategic objectives.  Since budgets are limited, this becom...

Jun 3, 2018

Sample Building schedule

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Attached sample Primavera and MS Project schedule for reference http://projectplanner.in/projects/simple-building-project/ 

Jun 5, 2018

Why WBS in important?

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It defines limitations and it creates flexibility.We set boundaries by the breakdown. We define the limits of responsibility, how far an “accountable body” could go, to what extent he/she could be questioned, how their success would be measured and p...

Nov 6, 2018

On Deliverables

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Deliverables are responsibilities.Part of a Planner’s job is to help the team to IDENTIFY them.There is a common problem: Team members don’t know what the deliverables are exactly, so they are not sure how to define them, how to explain them, or how ...

Nov 8, 2018

Are you managing your projects using the rear view mirror?

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Peter Drucker, arguably the father of modern management, said "What gets measured, gets managed.”As we manage projects, the activities that we measure need to be carefully selected in order to achieve our organisational goals. One of the issues of on...

Nov 14, 2018

Eight Tips For A Great Project Report

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Whether you’re writing for a university project or a corporate client at some point it’s likely that most professions will have you writing a report. While for most people it’s not their favourite part of the job, it is a necessary one. When it’s don...

Nov 15, 2018

Communication

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In most organizations, communication is not a solution, it’s a problem.It doesn’t matter how much the “leadership team” emphasize its importance; create many channels: email, phone, Skype, meetings; add it to the core values of the organization, or r...

Nov 15, 2018

Primavera P6 export to Excel. How to color WBS level automatically

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After export activity table from Primavera P6 to Excel, it’s very hard to distinguish WBS level. [[wysiwyg_imageupload:6262:]]I will show you how to color WBS level automatically so we can have report like in P6.Step 1:Follow this article to insert t...

Nov 19, 2018

Create a Learning Environment: Profit from Your Mistakes

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“All good lessons come at a cost.  Try to learn them inexpensively.”  Howard ZuckerWhen I made a mistake as a child, my father would remind me that all lessons come at a cost.  The goal was to learn them cheaply.  I did not always follow this maxim. ...

Dec 2, 2018

Understanding the Planned Dates in Oracle Primavera P6

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By Yaser A. Al-Bustanji CPCM, ACIArb, PMP, PMI-SP, PMI-RMP, November, 2017IntroductionOf the many different types of date fields in Oracle® P6™, the most controversial and misleading dates are, "Planned Start" and "Planned Finish" dates of the activi...

Nov 17, 2017

Calculations of Summary Original Durations in Primavera P6

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By Yaser A. Al-Bustanji CPCM, ACIArb, PMP, PMI-SP, PMI-RMP, November, 2017IntroductionThis article is a simple guide to understand the data stored in the P6 Original Duration fields that appear in all summary bands such as Project, WBS, Resources and...

Nov 27, 2017

Eliminating Waste in Knowledge Work

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Many of us are "knowledge workers."  We do not physically create a product.  We work in areas that are important to our enterprise, but do not directly serve customers.  We work in finance, marketing, technology, or similar functions.As knowledge wor...

Dec 2, 2017