If fraud, is that a crime. I am thinking NO, there would be too many plausable excuses, ie you thought you could expedite it or negotiate less, or thinking you could find a different vendor. I see quite a bit of this and wonder the best way to hand...
Our latest post Measuring Project Success asks the question can a project be years late, £ Billions over budget, and a success? It appears the answer to this question depends on your perspective.In a recent post looking at project success, we identi...
Is it better for a GC / DB to revise Orig Dur or just Rem Dur if you find out a procurement is going to take longer? (and of course note it narrative - haha) - I have seen only OD and RD required in specs for 35 years when Dur at Completion (or Act)...
What are some sources, possibly online or free, for how many people are needed for basics like drywall - for production rates?
Should I, can I, accept a delay claim presented in working days? I thought they have to be calendar days. - And its not like 10 days, more like 180 working days.
In cold winter climates - For building projects (non-road) - how do handle getting delayed into an un-scheduled winter? Anything beyond "un-workable days" and productivity days? - what if they do not want to work in the cold? (roads deal with it in...
Our latest post asks the questions ‘Which reference point really matters for what you are doing?’ and ‘How accurate do you need to be to be useful?’ It seems the whole reference system for determining heights and levels in the UK wobbles around by u...
Primavera Import: exported 1 line for the format, but copy and paste of "format" to the dates below does not work. It will not produce the black triangle in the upper left like the real exported dates which states "Text Date with digit year" and wh...
I have a Project which has multiple Contract Dates (Contract Duration, 7 Contract Sections and 2 Key Dates).As part of the Works I also have mixed working calendars (some activities run on 7-day per week calendar, but the majority are 5-day per week)...
Hello, Could you please share a sequence of installation of a gas modular skid ? Thank you
Hi Team,I have created a table to do some analysis that I want to be available to all my projects and eventually available to the whole enterprise.I have copied the table view into the Global field and it is available in other projects now that is go...
Hi All,I am facing problem in getting correct variance - BL project finish date in P6. My assigned program has project finish date of 09-Jun-23 and my current update program has project finish date of 09-Aug-23 whereas i am getting 53 days in the col...
Hi All, I am facing problem in getting correct variance - BL project finish date in P6. My assigned program has project finish date of 09-Jun-23 and my current update program has project finish date of 09-Aug-23 whereas i am getting 53 days in the co...
Dur % cpl vs Activity % Cpl - is the only way to get a % to show to change the original dur or use physical dur? - I thought there used to be a setting to connect rem dur to % cpl - but am I thinking of p3 not p6 and there is no setting in P6? What ...
Every time I update Spider it creates a onedrive folder, the same folder I do not want and previously deleted.When setting up my new Windows 11 computer Microsoft uploaded to the web some confidential files without my express consent or perhaps a con...
Are there any decent P6 import templates out there? I have been doing it on and off for 35 years and it is always dicey. I generally just export it, change it and import it back in. The formatting gets goofy and does not work that great. I think ...
To all my excel guru friendsI'm trying to present project data in excel with a circular spiral calendar diagram rather than a linear date axis but can't find a suitable template.Can anybody email me a starting template to [email protected]?than...
I see not replies on these questions since last Aug - is it a subscription issue or does no one answer any more... - if that is the case, I guess I should try. But I think some are missing I saw before, so something is up. But how will I see the an...
Agile seems like a mystery to many. It has an unfamiliar vocabulary and practices. To outsiders, it feels like an exclusive club. However, when we step back and inspect agile, we see that it follows common, recognizable patterns from our daily live...
Our latest paper, Predicting Completion in Agile & Distributed Projects, has been published in the June Project Management World Journal (PMWJ).This paper is part of an ongoing mission to develop a general solution to the challenge of reliably predic...