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...
In Primavera P6, there are 2 popular activity type: Task Dependent and Resource Dependent.So what is the difference?By choosing Task Dependent or Resource Dependent, P6 will choose what calendar it will use for the activity:Choose Task Dependent: P6 ...
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...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
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.