Here are ways that you can get involved with the initiative:Apply to join a Committee Help with Good Practice Standards Become an Industry Expert Run or support a Regional Meeting Run or support a Special Interest Group Become a Guild OfficerFor any ...
The Purpose of a Regional Guild Officer?The Regional Guild Officer’s (RGO) principal role is to act as an ambassador for the International Guild of Project Controls (GPC) membership in their region. They will assist in the continual development of t...
The concepts surrounding this matrix are being further developed in conjunction with the Guild Sponsors and senior Planning Planet Community practitioners and supportive consultants.The Matrix defines the scope of the The Guild of Project Controls Co...
Most people with an interest will know that PMI have released the PMBOK® Guide 5thEdition, the Standard for Program Management 3rdEdition and the Standard for Portfolio Management 3rdEdition, with an official publication date ofthe 31stDecember 2012....
One of the more common discussions on the web and in other places is focused on arguing the merits of, or comparing, the PRINCE2 Methodology with the PMBOK Methodology.The problem with the proposition is basic premise is completely wrong! The PMBOK® ...
The simple fact ignored by most accountants, general management and project managers is that cost is an output from the management process, and pretending cost is a manageable input is a recipe for disaster.Profit is the difference between the price ...
I met a lovely old guy last week at a Fleetwood Mac concert at Madison Square Gardens who was an Attendant there. We got talking while I was getting a beer and he told me he'd worked there for forty years, he remembered when Fleetwood Mac first pla...
As a scheduler within various industries, I have been asked “What is Schedule Quality?” In fact, if you pose this question to various project personnel, you may receive more than one answer per individual! Why? Some view “schedule quality” as a simp...
Planning Planet members are invited to a free AIPM Project Controls SIG (PC-SIG) meeting to be held at The Water Rat Hotel, 256 Moray Street, South Melbourne VIC, 3205: http://www.thewaterrathotel.com.au/Date: Wednesday 20 November 2013, Start 5.30...
The Complex Projects Contract 2013 (CPC2013) focuses on managing time to ensure projects are delivered to specification on budget and without delays. Unlike existing contracts, which target failure by requiring financial compensation for late complet...
There is not a project in this world that does not use spreadsheets from time to time and many are run exclusively by spreadsheets – in numerous surveys Microsoft Excel is listed as the most common / popular project management tool. And generally sp...
There is not a project in this world that does not use spreadsheets from time to time and many are run exclusively by spreadsheets – in numerous surveys Microsoft Excel is listed as the most common / popular project management tool. And generally sp...
The Guild of Project Controls is in formation, and most people have a view of what is involved in ‘project controls’ but what is the ‘dictionary’ definition of ‘project controls’? To answer this question, my proposed definition for ‘project controls...
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If my team and I were on a mission to standardize our program control software, we might perform a benchmarking exercise. I firmly believe if we performed such an exercise, we would find that one-hundred different organizations would have at least o...
From our vast community we have listed here members with world class expertise and give our thanks to them and the many others who also contribute but wish to remain anonymous. If you would like to be included please contact [email protected]...
The scheduling conundrum is simple:We know effective scheduling makes a significant difference to project success and we know what effective scheduling looks like but in most projects, the schedule is ignored, bad scheduling practice is the norm and ...
Chris CarsonChris is one of the leading thinkers with the GPPCD and Planning Planet. A highly entertaining speaker and a true lover of the industry, in this presentation Chris outlines some of the Guild Standards of Practice in Planning and Forensics...
These are words of desperation, a client or senior manager who's got his back to the wall.I was faced with this exact situation on a consulting job a few weeks back, the business owner, facing heavy penalties for late delivery was desperate for answe...
It is failry common to come across lots of people in planning who are actively engaged in planning but have never visited or worked on the site. This is deeply disturbing. It also applies to other industries as well as you must have noticed. Well, in...