Our paper looking at the scheduling challenges in agile and distributed projects has been published in the February 2003 edition of PM World Journal: https://pmworldjournal.com/Critical path theory is based on an assumption that to deliver a project ...
Best way to either require or get TIME contingency in a schedule? I mainly know the cons...There will be delays on a big project, it seems like you are setting yourself up to pay more: some thoughts? I was on a job once where they accidently have...
Don't you have to "add new calendar" every time, or a change in the Calendar will change old schedules? - if not, why not?
Hello Everyone, I am wondering how to create a WBS UDF that can be displayed at Activity level, same as WBS Category can be displayed and grouped at Activity Layouts as a column.Or a WBS code that can be displayed and grouped by at Activity level. Th...
I my recent post I have explained how to trick Primavera and MS Project and show Total Floats with or without project deadlines at the same time.Total Floats: with or without project deadlines. - Salute EnterprisesRegards,Alex Lyaschenko
Is It possible in Project Online to have a 'hidden' activity column? Only users with the right level of access can see it? Regards,Alex Lyaschenko
Risk simulation is becoming popular but most risk simulation tools and the ways how they are used miss some important functionalities that make the results of this simulation unreliable.I am continuing my posts about 'Monte Carlo Simulation Challenge...
Hi friends,Today I did a simple testing take into account 3 activities and different calendars A (5WD) and B (7WD) and I had two different answers but, my question is, considering the CPM schedule we are limited to found a correct critical path accor...
Hello everyone, If anyone has a copy of this Standard, I would be very greatful if you could loan it to me. Rod
Hi All,We are developer and our Client requests a "Work Plan" for a site development.Work Plan is too broad, it can either be a management plan, work narrative, or work scedule. Or maybe a budget plan or financing.I dont have problem preparing any of...
Dear all,several PM tools (e.g. Primavera, MS Project, Spider) have possibility to have inter-project dependencies.Whilst they differ in implementation, the idea is the same in all tools.But the question is: what shall be the general approach to mana...
Dear all, I just created this generic post about managing project portfolios, but I want to clarify some details on how Spider is designed to use it, as I think it is well thought through in Spider.In my understanding that it the cycle is like this:1...
Hi All, I am a University Masters student studying Civil Engineering. I’m currently in my final year and I’m doing a dissertation on 'The functionality of MS PROJECT'. If you are an ENGINEER and use/have used MS PROJECT, it would massively help if yo...
Hi All, I am a University Masters student studying Civil Engineering. I’m currently in my final year and I’m doing a dissertation on 'The functionality of MS PROJECT'. If you are an ENGINEER and use/have used MS PROJECT, it would massively help if yo...
PGCS in collaboration with the developer of Earned Schedule, Walt Lipke, and seven other international experts will be running a free webinar on 8th March to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Earned Schedule in the EVM marketplace. The webinar will r...
How long does it take to build / construct a school?
Hi,I'm trying to copy the resource assignment table and paste it in Excel.I have divided the labor units by the number of units per period in order to show the number of resources required.Meanwhile, when pasting in Excel, the labor units are pasted ...
Hello, I am trying to create a filter that would show only Driving Predecessor/Successor or both for an activity. Any suggestions? Best regards, Bogdan
Would everyone here use a 3/1 data date for February progress? (aside from some stated date like the 15th etc.) - this way it would match Feb. cost data etc., I always heard that the data date line was like 8am or whatever starting time. I assume in...
Hello Vladimir, I saw that Spider has developed the possibility to user productivity periods, which is awsome! These productivity periods are time-based, similar to cost periods. This is great for modeling lower productivity during certain periods li...