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A Personal Retrospective

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This year was like living through a 500-year storm.   COVID has infected 1 in 20 Americans, and 1 in 1,000 have died of the disease.  Nearly 15 million people are still out of work.  Thirty-three million have been remote for 9-months and are not like...

Jan 3, 2021

Deltek Acumen Suite of Applications

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I want to take this opportunity to let you know how to qualify your project schedule more comfortably without spending numerous hours and even days to make conclusions and recommendations.Do you want to make your project schedule better, more reliabl...

Jan 5, 2021

Bridge Items - Work Activity Base Production Rates in USA

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Work Activity Base Production RatesItemUnitBase RateMetric Base Rate      Grade Items         MobilizationDays5       Clearing & GrubbingAcres31      Demo. Of BuildingsEach1       Asbestos Rem.(Res./Small Commercial)Days4       Asbestos Rem.(Large Co...

Jan 11, 2021

Best Five Good Reasons to Decide on a Job at Animation

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The area of animation and multimedia is forecast to mature at an interest speed of 4 per cent in 2019 into 2029. Animators and multimedia designers really ' are very in requirement in expanding businesses such as pictures, video and television gaming...

Jan 15, 2021

Gantt 101: Building a Better Project Schedule

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The Gantt Chart is the most widely used project scheduling tool.  It visually depicts the project’s activities, when they will occur, and their interdependencies.  When used correctly, it is powerful.  Unfortunately, most Gantts are poorly constructe...

Jun 4, 2022

Pick Your Battles Wisely

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Conflict exists.  It is a natural part of being human.  It occurs at home and at work.We disagree.  We have different perspectives and opinions.  We get upset by things that were said, or not said.  These events arouse our emotions.  We become angry ...

Jul 4, 2022

The Conundrum of Three Point Estimation and PERT

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Is an estimate based on multiple points more accurate than a single estimate?If we go with conventional wisdom then it certainly would seem so. A mean of more than one estimate is likely to give us better result.In project management, there is a thre...

Jul 27, 2022

GAO is Wrong

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GAO IS WRONG:Activities have hundreds of fields and many might still be active if you only change a few.GAO Schedule Assessment Guide Best Practices for Project Schedules suggests keeping deleted activities and logic while setting duration to 0. See ...

Aug 27, 2017

Stakeholder Management: A Key to Project Success

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Projects with involved stakeholders are far more likely to be successful.  But many projects suffer from low engagement from executives, users, and key stakeholders.The PMI’s Pulse of the Professionsurvey found that projects with high executive suppo...

Aug 31, 2017

Effective Communications = Productive Project Teams

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Effective communications are the cornerstone to successful projects and productive teams.   The Agile Manifestoextolls the virtues of collaboration, individual interactions, and face-to-face communications.  Projects represent our ability to coordina...

Oct 1, 2017

Considering How We Think

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We are living in interesting times. All countries are struggling to control the COVID-19 pandemic.  Societies are challenging their histories of racial and social injustice.  Fundamental beliefs are being scrutinized. Considering how we think and und...

Sep 3, 2020

Considering How We Think

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We are living in interesting times. All countries are struggling to control the COVID-19 pandemic.  Societies are challenging their histories of racial and social injustice.  Fundamental beliefs are being scrutinized. Considering how we think and und...

Sep 3, 2020

WBS Dictionary

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Writing the Work Breakdown Structure Dictionary must be done right at the beginning of the project planning stages. This article shows how. https://bibloteka.com/how-to-create-a-professional-wbs-dictionary/

Sep 24, 2020

Budgeting Continuous Improvements and Process Estimating

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1. Problem or Opportunity StatementA series of blogs in reference to an ongoing PMO set up for a Governmental owner will be posted in the coming days, this to set up all the processes to monitor the construction of two hospitals. Our perspective is f...

Sep 27, 2020

Advanced Stakeholder Modeling

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 No matter your role, you are accountable to someone.  As we ascend the organizational ladder, stakeholder management becomes an increasingly more critical skill.Stakeholder management is the ongoing process of identifying, evaluating, and engaging t...

Oct 4, 2020