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 ...
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...
In Primavera P6, after finish creating the schedule, you may need to assign resource to activity to make the resource plan.I will show you how to do it.Let say you have a schedule like in below picture:To assign resource, first you need to create one...
"Enhance opportunities and reduce threats by aligning sub-portfolios, programs and projects to meet organizational strategic goals"This article illustrates the high-level components of Portfolio Risk & Opportunity Management. The risk is both threats...
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...
In Primavera P6, we can quickly identify behind schedule and over budget activity by using graphical indicator in User Defined Field.I will show you how to do it.Supposed that we have a project which has baseline. After update progress, we can show t...
A Practical approach to Baseline Programme Maintenance (Revised Baseline) under a NEC ECC Framework ContractIntroductionThis article aims to discuss the concept of the ‘Accepted Programme’ in the Engineering and Construction Contract (ECC) and the Ne...
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...
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...
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/
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...
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...
How to Mix the ‘And’ and the ‘Or’ Options in One FilterBuilding a filter where all the conditions are either ‘And’ or ‘Or’ between each row is pretty straight forward. However, if you want to mix them up a little it’s not so obvious how you should do...
When we use Earned Value Management technique, we focus on:Planned Value Cost (PV) = Budget At Completion * Schedule % CompleteEarned Value Cost (EV) = Budget At Completion * Performance % Complete (usually equal to Activity % Complete)Schedule Varia...
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...
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...
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 ...
Forecasting is an important skill and since the beginning, folks have been using different techniques and procedures to better predict the future. As the technology evolved over time, new techniques and procedures have revolutionized the forecasting ...
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...
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...