Recently there was a tremendous opportunity to learn from one of today’s premier project-control advocates and thought leaders on a topic most project professionals may very well be occupied with on a daily basis. Lessons from experience have taught...
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Why so many poor schedules?Schedule logic is not the issue, what makes our schedule models so poor is how we deal with resources. Without resources nothing is done. Schedules that do not take into account all resource constraints are incomplete and ...
Selecting a project management approach and framework is complicated. Not that long ago, it was like buying a Model-T Ford; you could have any color you wanted, as long as it was black—our only option was Waterfall.Today Waterfall is still a choice....
While one can update Actual Start and/or Actual Finish dates in Microsoft Project by displaying these columns, my preferred method is using the Task Details Form which is very similar to the Activity Details Form in Primavera P6.In this short video, ...
Large enterprises struggle to manage their project portfolios effectively. They fall prey to the fallacy of optimizing resource allocation. Or simply stated, they focus on making sure everyone is busy rather than getting things done.Team members ar...
Assumptions and risks are embedded in our daily lives. We expect the day will unfold as planned, and risks will not materialize. Most of these assumptions are benign, like thinking the weather report will be accurate; or no major calamities will oc...
The date formats available in Primavera P6 are very limited and to best of my knowledge, you cannot get the mmm-yy (month-year) format straight out of the box. You might want to display dates in mmm-yy if you don't want to show exact dates in issued ...
Project managers rarely face ethical dilemmas. We generally do not make life-or-death decisions or need to choose between “right” and “wrong.” However, we need to be prepared and have a framework for confronting these circumstances when they arise....
Many of us are blessed with many things in our life that we seldom appreciate. Sometimes they are huge and other times they are small. Regardless of magnitude, Thanksgiving Day is the time of the year that serves well as a reminder to be thankful. Ap...
Agile is now part of the general business lexicon. On the news, non-technology leaders keep mentioning the need to be “agile” or “pivot.” Even leaders of traditional industries, like football, use the terminology to describe their approach to their...
This year was like living through a 500-year storm. COVID has infected 1 in 20 Americans, and 1 in 1,000 have died of the disease. Nearly 15 million people are still out of work. Thirty-three million have been remote for 9-months and are not like...
I want to take this opportunity to let you know how to qualify your project schedule more comfortably without spending numerous hours and even days to make conclusions and recommendations.Do you want to make your project schedule better, more reliabl...
The area of animation and multimedia is forecast to mature at an interest speed of 4 per cent in 2019 into 2029. Animators and multimedia designers really ' are very in requirement in expanding businesses such as pictures, video and television gaming...
The Gantt Chart is the most widely used project scheduling tool. It visually depicts the project’s activities, when they will occur, and their interdependencies. When used correctly, it is powerful. Unfortunately, most Gantts are poorly constructe...
Conflict exists. It is a natural part of being human. It occurs at home and at work.We disagree. We have different perspectives and opinions. We get upset by things that were said, or not said. These events arouse our emotions. We become angry ...
Is an estimate based on multiple points more accurate than a single estimate?If we go with conventional wisdom then it certainly would seem so. A mean of more than one estimate is likely to give us better result.In project management, there is a thre...
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...