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CPM Resource & Cost Loading Requires Inside Knowledge

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CPM Resource & Cost Loading Requires Inside KnowledgeLike construction project management, CPM Resource & Cost Loading is a science in which the best practitioners have administrative, as well as practical and theoretical skills specific to the indus...

Dec 29, 2016

The Power To Save A Life

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As we discussed last time, the resource-loaded schedule represents a project manager’s most valuable tool for understanding and controlling the time and money requirements on any given project. With a continued focus on schedule importance, this arti...

Oct 18, 2016

Risk Register with Dashboard for Risk Communication

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Risk communication is required and crucial to keeping Stakeholders in the loop regarding project health and progress. It is arduous to please higher management and other Key Stakeholders by communicating nebulous (vague) project Risk status.Lack of c...

Oct 19, 2016

Black Swans

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Black swan events are so fascinating that they are a common source of discussion in many risk management forums. The variety of perspectives coming from all directions never ceases to amaze. Understanding black swans can help planning and professiona...

Oct 21, 2016

Project control – A Technique and Approach

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Project control provides the systematic pathway for monitoring, analyzing forecasting and controlling the projects. Project control is a proactive approach rather reactive. Similar to other project management components, Project control plan ought to...

Oct 27, 2016

How to perform Impacted As-Planned Delay Analysis in Primavera P6

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The Impacted As-Planned method measures the impact of the delays on the as-planned schedule. The delays are formulated as activities and added to the as-planned schedule showing the effect of each delay and demonstrating how the project is being dela...

Nov 8, 2016

The Butterfly Effect and How It Will Impact Your Project

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Previously, we have discussed how schedule pressure and various schedule compression techniques may manifest themselves unpredictably and with adverse effect on the project. When pondering this correlation it might be comforting to recall the age old...

Nov 8, 2016

Wiser Group Decision Making

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If ‘two heads are better than one’ why do so many committees make bad decisions?[[wysiwyg_imageupload:4284:]]Good group decision-making involves an open discussion among members of a group, each with their own skills, experience, ideas and informatio...

Jun 6, 2016

Powerful Words, “I Don’t Know”

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“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...

Mar 4, 2017

Recommended Steps to Effective Gate 1 IAP

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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...

Mar 12, 2017

Diversity Risk in the Canadian Workplace

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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...

Jan 30, 2017

Making Sense of Agile

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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...

Feb 6, 2017

Portfolio Management - The elephant in the room

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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...

Nov 7, 2014

Planning By Consensus

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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...

Nov 13, 2014

Why Tasks Should be Banned from Project Scheduling Tools

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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...

Nov 14, 2014