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Planning Planet Community Gathering: London, UK

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Good day everybody...As we are attending Project Challenge on 6th and 7th March in London our London Kick-Off Meeting is now scheduled and available for like-minded Project Controls practitioners in our industry.   If you are interested to network, s...

Feb 22, 2018

4 Bad (Planning) Habits to Kick this Year

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4 Bad (Planning) Habits to Kick this Year February 15, 2018 | By Dr. Dan Patterson, Guild Fellow of Planning & Scheduling, PMP  After being on the road these last two weeks presenting at project planning conferences and talking to hundreds of project...

Feb 23, 2018

Management, Project Planning and Control

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This is my first note. Actually I have a Persian blog to share my opinion about: Project Management, Project Planning and Control, Strategic Planning and thier softwares. The Latest part of my note is to introduce PowerBI software that is published b...

Feb 26, 2018

Learning to Love the PMBOK®--It Wasn’t Easy

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Years ago, I begrudgingly took my project management certification (PMP®)exam.  I passed.  Almost a decade later, I now teach PMP® preparation classes and see the value of the Project Management Book of Knowledge® Guide (PMBOK®)and the rigors of the ...

Feb 27, 2018

Role of “Daily Diary” in Construction Projects

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Often neglected, the subject document is an important piece of paper for construction projects. The document can be used in a variety of ways to improve the project performance and dispute resolutions. I have often seen that the project team believes...

Mar 1, 2018

Reinventing the Wheel with Spreadsheets

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For a long time, too long in fact, spreadsheets have been the primary tool that organizations use for budgeting, planning and forecasting. It has become ingrained in the DNA of how organizations function, the foundation of everyday reporting and tran...

Mar 9, 2018

What Are Some Good Risk Management Techniques?

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To properly mitigate risk, a project manager must know how to effectively manage it. The inability to ascertain hazards can cause a project to careen off the rails rather quickly. Risk management is a process that begins at the conception of the vent...

Mar 16, 2018

Project Controls Gathering: Johannesburg, SA

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[[wysiwyg_imageupload:5488:]]Good Day Everybody...Following our Planning Planet / Guild of Project Controls SA kick-off meeting we are planning our next gathering.This next gathering is scheduled as follows:Date: Saturday 21 April 2018Time: 10:00Venu...

Mar 22, 2018

Best Practices for Resource Management

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The best sports managers in history have all been those who had an intuitive grasp of the resources they had available to them. They had a deep understanding of what each team member could do and who could make a difference at crucial moments. This r...

Mar 23, 2018

How to use Activity Duration Type in Primavera P6

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(If the image is too big, you can read the original article at this link : https://doduykhuong.com/2018/03/25/how-to-use-activity-duration-type-in-primavera-p6/ )In Primavera P6, when we assign resource to activity there is a equation:Original Durati...

Mar 31, 2018

Have your say at Planning Planet's community gathering

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The Planning Planet Midlands Kick-Off Meeting will be taking place on Wednesday 18 April 2018 from 18:30 onwards and is available for like-minded Project Controls practitioners in our industry. If you are interested in networking, sharing knowledge a...

Apr 4, 2018

Highlight individual activities in Primavera P6 report

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In primavera P6 report, they do not support to highlight individual activity which we want, such as activity behind schedule. Now, I will share with you one way to do this. And in this demo, I want to highlight activity has Total Float (TF) and Varia...

Apr 10, 2018

Planning Planet Community Kick-Off Meeting: (NJ/NYC/PA, USA)

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[[wysiwyg_imageupload:5542:]]Welcome to the Planning Planet Community NJ/NYC/PA, USA. Our Kick-Off Meeting is now scheduled for passionate Project Controls practitioners who are interested in networking and truly learning more about Project Controls....

Apr 10, 2018

Tips for Creating Effective Gantt Charts

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Gantt charts are widely used by project management teams to recognize the current status and plan the upcoming activities of the project. Activities are represented as horizontal bars and the length of the bar shows the activity duration.- Make a Tas...

Apr 17, 2018

Planning Planet Community Gathering (London, UK)

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[[wysiwyg_imageupload:5594:]]Location: The Firestation, 150 Waterloo Road, London, SE1 8SB, EnglandTopics:We meet up, say hello and generally talk and complain about work issuesSuggestions for future gathering(s) (i.e. location, dates, topics, etc.)A...

Apr 26, 2018

How to Use Traffic Light to Show Microsoft Project Progress Status

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Sometimes in a Microsoft Project schedule, you might want a quick visual indicator of when a task is behind schedule or in progress and a good way to achieve this is through the use of a traffic light system. This tutorial will show you how to config...

Mar 30, 2021

Better Zoom Meetings

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In one of my training classes, there is an exercise to conduct a daily stand-up meeting.  The meeting should be no longer than 15-minutes and be well structured.  In class, we challenge the leader with common distracting and unproductive behaviors.  ...

Apr 1, 2021

Add Decimal Places to Microsoft Project % Complete

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By default, Microsoft Project does not display task % complete numbers with decimal places. In this tutorial, you will learn how to add decimal places to % complete using custom fields. 

Apr 15, 2021