The SDK (Software Development Kit) is an awesome tool that allow P6 database to connect to excel and exchange information in order to create the schedule using excel. But sometimes the SDK is not installed on the Primavera machine and the scheduler d...
Has your project been delayed by bad weather? Contractors are an eternally optimistic bunch and never seem to allow for any weather related impacts on construction projects. What, - are you really going to work on a twelve month long project and thin...
The Standish Grouphas published its annual CHAOS Report on the state of software development since 1994. The Report is often cited as a key metric for the industry's performance and progress. The yearly update draws much attention.Analyzing the lon...
5 Things You Might Not Have Been Told Today I would not be sharing a tip on how to use a Planning software but instead I am going to make 5 suggestions that I think people starting out in Project Planning might find relevant. These are my personal th...
Unfortunately many construction projects are completed late. Invariably this negatively impacts the contractor’s reputation and costs both the contractor and their customer money. Often the contractor has to pay penalties for finishing late and they ...
MS Project do not provide a tool to highlight a time period in Gantt chart.So how can we do it?First you create a new calendar. For example "Gantt Shade"In Exception tab, add the Time period you want to highlight. (From January to March)Right click o...
[[wysiwyg_imageupload:4878:]]This is my fifth book-signing event (Venue = Signal Hills, Calgary, AB). I had the pleasure of meeting with John Castaneda, a Planning and Scheduling colleague, and Kate Knowles, a new friend. Thanks for your support. M...
When teaching classes on Agile and DevOps, I am always presented with the comment, "We've been Agile for years, but..." The student then continues to describe an organization rife with Agile ant-patterns. Agile and DevOps are primarily cultural trans...
Edit; ScheduleReader™ (previously PrimaveraReader™) has been rebranded, please see http://www.planningplanet.com/advertisers/schedulereaderWhen it first launched, PrimaveraReader XER viewer was an intriguing alternative to importing .xer files in you...
FREE WHITE PAPER From PM Solution Pro (https://www.pmsolutionpro.com) “Remember this! Plan to Schedule, Schedule to Plan” underlines the misconception plaguing all fields of management. It briefly explains that a clear line of sight must always exist...
https://pmsolutionpro.com/three-3-project-business-management-books/ Improvements to project management human dynamics starts with the quality of its resources. The qualifications of the resource influence the outcome of the endeavor. Like it or not,...
Look, up in the sky! It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s…a Super Project Manager!True, they don’t wear capes or leap tall buildings in a single bound. But today’s Super Project Managers are fearlessly fighting back against the sworn enemies of project su...
Enterprise Project Management enables control within projects and programmes, management of constraints and resources across the portfolio, and assurance. However – if it’s not supporting decision making, half of the value is lost – and if your decis...
Many organizations struggle with project portfolio management (PPM). On the face of it, portfolio management should be easy. We want to align our fi\unding decisions to the organization’s strategic objectives. Since budgets are limited, this becom...
Attached sample Primavera and MS Project schedule for reference http://projectplanner.in/projects/simple-building-project/
It defines limitations and it creates flexibility.We set boundaries by the breakdown. We define the limits of responsibility, how far an “accountable body” could go, to what extent he/she could be questioned, how their success would be measured and p...
Deliverables are responsibilities.Part of a Planner’s job is to help the team to IDENTIFY them.There is a common problem: Team members don’t know what the deliverables are exactly, so they are not sure how to define them, how to explain them, or how ...
Peter Drucker, arguably the father of modern management, said "What gets measured, gets managed.”As we manage projects, the activities that we measure need to be carefully selected in order to achieve our organisational goals. One of the issues of on...
Whether you’re writing for a university project or a corporate client at some point it’s likely that most professions will have you writing a report. While for most people it’s not their favourite part of the job, it is a necessary one. When it’s don...
In most organizations, communication is not a solution, it’s a problem.It doesn’t matter how much the “leadership team” emphasize its importance; create many channels: email, phone, Skype, meetings; add it to the core values of the organization, or r...