“I don’t know” are three words that most people dread saying. The need to know the answer has followed us from school into the working world. We are loath to admit ignorance. I have seen colleagues twist themselves into a pretzel inventing an ans...
Interactive Planning (IAP) is a methodology used by projects to engage important stakeholders and subject matter experts in a facilitated workshop setting.The engagement process is through collaborative discussion of project plan and strategy to deve...
In Finish to Start relationship, Primavera calculate Early and Late date base on 2 processForward Pass (to calculate Early Start and Early Finish)Backward Pass (to calculate Late Start and Late Finish) In Backward Pass, the Late Start of successor (A...
In Primavera when we show Resource Usage Profile or Activity Usage Profile, the max value in Y-Axis is determined by software. And we may wonder how is it determined.I will explain in this article.First, it depend on what is your Timescale. It is by ...
A good understanding of diversity risk must be part of planning. The world is laden with so many cultures. Mixtures of these various norms creates a new norm that must be considered seriously.If we look in the past, multiculturalism has a long and wi...
There has been a tectonic shift in how software is developed. Terms like Agile, CI/CD, DevOps, BDD, and TDD are new additions to the IT vocabulary. These new practices and related tools promise to significantly reduce the time and effort required to...
Is this you?You’re stretched across too many projects.Not only that, but you’re frustrated that there are quite a few projects in the company that seem to have little benefit, and yet they just drift on.Worse still, these projects tie up precious tim...
So much hinges on the project schedule, yet so few team members contribute to it. Whatsmore, they typically don’t care about critical paths, constraints and other building blocks; they just want to know “what, where and when.” We’re overdue for conse...
My best friend and I meet up once every year and we invariably end up chatting about our mutual passion for project planning. His view is a little extreme but one with enough merit to warrant discussion: “Ban activities and tasks from scheduling tool...
Project planning is all about figuring out when we are going to finish our project and how much is it going to cost. We typically start with a fixed start date and then figure out what the end date and associated cost may be.Why then, when planning o...
I like to think of Virtual Design & Construction (VDC) as a process that ideally flows through a project, digitally (i.e., virtually) creating, collecting, transporting, and delivering project data from design through construction. The VDC process in...
The Specification is full of errors and is biased in favor of specific software.Just take a look at a few sections, it is a disaster.2.1 SOFTWARE - 2.1.2.2 Other Than Primavera - If the contractor chooses software other than Primavera P6, that is com...
There is an ongoing dialogue in many enterprises: Should project management be a centralized, shared-service? Or, should project managers be decentralized and embedded within their functional organizations? The answer is, "it depends." Every enterp...
A project management framework is important in effectively managing projects. Planning and scheduling management framework is essential in managing plans and schedule. An engineering management framework governs engineering works as does a safety man...
Project planning and scheduling processes follow a management framework called the Project Implementation Model (PIM). Such model divides the project into sub-boundaries called stages, gates, or checkpoints.Does not really matter what proprietary ter...
20-May-2017 My first book signing event went well today at Indigo Signal Hill. I met a lot of interesting, intelligent people and was able to introduce the book to them. Had some lively discussion with a few who said that the book was timely. Some pr...
Conception bring us to a time before any recorded execution plan and schedule. It is the zero point in time where the fate of the project is most uncertain. From this origin comes initiation or Stage 1.A feasibility study and a business case becomes ...
Agile software projects have significantly better outcomes than Waterfall methodologies. Statistics from the 2015 Standish Group’s Chaos Report show that, on average, Agile projects are three times more likely to be successful than Waterfall project...
[[wysiwyg_imageupload:4845:]]I have just completed my second book-signing event at Chapters-Chinook, Calgary, AB. Unique to the day's experience was a lively discussion with a group of young students. They were highly inquisitive and showed genuine i...
We presented papers at the Engineers Australia MCPC14 conference late last year. They are now available on our website.Understanding Design – The challenge of informed consent looks at the problem of communicating complex project information to stake...