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Study Habits For Success: Tips For Student

In today's competitive era unplanned efforts swell up the complexity which intensifies the burden on students causing undue pressure. The solution is Study-Smart rather than Study-Hard. A successful life is no luck; it starts with honesty and depends...

On Constrains

You can not play football without using your feet. You can not play volleyball without using your hands. You can not take part in the Tour de France without a bicycle.Constraints are meaningful to a certain level, a little bit more and the plan is no...

The Daily Stand-Up Meeting: Best Practices

Lean and Agile organizations have harnessed the power of the stand-up meeting as a valuable process tool. The stand-up is an efficient and effective way to communicate.  It promotes transparency into the progress of work and highlights issues.  The m...

Resource Critical Path Approach and Reason of Delay to the Rescue

Case Study: Jabel Ali Refinery Major Shutdown

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/case-study-jabel-ali-refinery-shutdown-2016-mujahid-ali-akhtar/Hi, I wrote a case study for a major Shutdown in the past and would like to share in this group for feedback as well as for your information who are in the ...

Road Trippin’ Organizational Change: The Beginning

Most organizational change efforts do not succeed.  They fail to achieve the desired results.  They are disruptive and sometimes leave the company worse-off.  An oft-cited statistic is that 70% of organizational change efforts fail.  This metric is a...

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It is so easy to find connections and engage in business with others over LinkedIn or email – just click ‘connect’ and you’re done. However, nothing quite compares to old fashioned face-to-face conversations; you can easily make more progress in a 10...

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GUILD OF PROJECT CONTROLS PARTNERSENDORSED TRAINING PROVIDER As the Guild of Project Controls (GPC) has released a comprehensive Certification in Project Controls covering ALL levels of Competency AND all areas of Project Controls - either individual...

Primavera Tips and Tricks - Tracing logic to a targeted activity using Primavera P6

Primavera Tips and TricksTracing logic to a targeted activity using Primavera P6Project Controls – Planning and SchedulingJuly 2018 By David H. Doughty, PSPIntroduction:In this post, I will show you how trace logic to a targeted activity on your proj...

An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure

Ben Franklin was a an American founding father, inventor, diplomat, and philosopher.  He also wrote Poor Richard’s Almanacwhich contained information for farmers and timeless adages.  When it comes to project management, two quotes come to mind:“An o...

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Primavera P6 export to Excel. How to identify WBS level for activity

After export activity table from Primavera P6 to Excel, it's very hard to tell this activity belong to what WBS.[[wysiwyg_imageupload:5917:]] We can add 1 column to show the WBS level for each activity.The formula for the column is : =((FIND(TRIM(B2)...

FREE WHITE PAPER NO.6: Ten Cardinal Rules to Good Schedule Baseline Management

FREE WHITE PAPER NO.6 from PM Solution Pro Ten Cardinal Rules to Good Schedule Baseline Management A project that does not have a clear understanding on how to manage schedule baselines cannot expect to manage time effectively. When clients and contr...