is sans-baseline becoming de riguer? - a rhetorical question.CPM baselines are snarky by nature. Many project teams regard them as ends in themselves: issued preliminarily, and then discarded, as opposed to “that to which all that follows shall be co...
Stakeholders struggle mightily with the definition of the terms baseline, recovery,mitigation, and completion schedules, and how they differ from one another. That is most unfortunate for CPM schedulers who invariably are handed client directives tha...
The central focus of construction project schedules is invariably on the build-out trajectory, or more specifically, the builder’s work and responsibilities. Despite design deliverables residing squarely within the critical path, they are seldom adeq...
"Out of the Ivory Tower, and into the Trenches: is the building industryever receptive to new technologies before they are outdated?Google has recently begun making its long anticipated self-3D mapping software Project Tango, available to developers ...
Designers will forced to begrudgingly collaborate with builders in program coordination: they will sink or swim in these unchartered waters.Despite the hype - such as that which I brought to light in McGraw Hill’s skewed Annual BIM Survey, there soon...
Primavera support you to control project performance by Earned Value Management technique.I will show you how to use it in Primavera.We have a simple project to finish casting 10 column.1 column / day.100 $ / columnEach activity is assigned resource ...
Mind Map is a graphical and pictorial illustration of the interrelated ideas for a common goal or objective. It truly makes its mark for empowering imagination to produce new theme of ideas. Mind Mapping drives people, with a multi-dimensional approa...
Why Projects Fail-a primer on mass mismanagemnetStatistics cite chronic and epidemic delay and overspend in the building industry is only getting worse over time. Naturally, the bigger the headache, the bigger the pill, and the Olympic Games are a ho...
Standard deviation is an abstract concept derived from observation rather than calculation or experimentation. The standard deviation (SD, also represented by the Greek letter sigma or σ) is a measure that is used to quantify the amount of variation...
Primavera P6 give us an option to decide that Baseline date is equal to Planned date or Current date.The main purpose of this option is for Earned Value calculation.I’ll explain that option in this article.We have a simple project containing 3 activi...
"Individual commitment to a group effort--that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work." Vince Lombardi When you hear about flow and being in the zone, you almost always associate that with sports. The performa...
If I asked you what the trickiest part of project management was for your enterprise, what would you say? If you answered managing the diverse projects in your portfolio – you’re not alone. Most businesses work on a variety of projects (whether it b...
Primavera provide a tool called Progress Line to compare Actual Progress (Activity % Complete) with Baseline on Gantt chart.I will show you how to do it.We have a simple project. It is assigned a Project Baseline.Then we will update the project.Activ...
The negative float is a very popular hot topic in the scheduling field and it’s generated when the late dates are less than the early dates and usually it’s accompanied with a delay in the project, and a lot of project management professionals think ...
Unfortunately when it comes to resources and resource leveling, P6 model is absolute. P6 doesn’t calculate the float correctly and the longest path will not be accurate since the late and early dates will not change after leveling.Primavera P6 doesn’...
Most Likely Schedule, what is it?It is one of the questions asked more often in risk-based planning and scheduling (Related topic: Data Maturity, Quality and Project Integration). Project directors, managers, planners, and schedulers have to know wh...
Time is the dominant constraint on all projects. There is a constant race against the clock. Many projects have fixed completion dates determined by external forces. Projects that fall behind schedule, struggle to catch up. I have never met a proj...
The Claim digger or Schedule Comparison is a widely used tool in P6 to compare between two projects and detect the differences.One of the main shortage of the Claim Digger or the Schedule Comparison tool is detecting the changes in calendars.The tool...
Baseline is something we usually do not change. However in some case we need to change it.I will show you how to do it.We have a simple project which is assigned a baselineAfter a few update period, the project is delayed quite far from the baselineA...
Many construction projects are financially successful until the end, when costs suddenly spiral out of control. The main reason for the additional costs is because the project isn’t completed on time. When I say completed, I don’t just mean handed ov...