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Why Projects Fail

7 years 32 weeks ago

Why Projects Fail

-a primer on mass mismanagemnet

Statistics cite chronic and epidemic delay and overspend in the building industry is only getting worse over time. Naturally, the bigger the headache, the bigger the pill, and the Olympic Games are a horse pill. As the Games must go on, they make deadline, but average about 167% overspend.  Alternatively, infrastructure

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Effective Project Planning with Mind Map - Case Study

7 years 33 weeks ago

Mind Map is a graphical and pictorial illustration of the interrelated ideas for a common goal or objective. It truly makes its mark for empowering imagination to produce new theme of ideas. Mind Mapping drives people, with a multi-dimensional approach, to generate a consolidated and concentric solution to the problem. Mind mapping is a great tool to plan, gather ideas and generate a 

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How to use Earned Value Management in Primavera P6

7 years 33 weeks ago

Primavera support you to control project performance by Earned Value Management technique.

I will show you how to use it in Primavera.

We have a simple project to finish casting 10 column.

  • 1 column / day.
  • 100 $ / column

Each activity is assigned resource A.

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How Google Tango VR/AR Apps Could Level the BIM Playing Field

7 years 33 weeks ago
Designers will forced to begrudgingly collaborate with builders in program coordination: they will sink or swim in these unchartered waters.

Despite the hype - such as that which I brought to light in McGraw Hill’s 

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Ten Ways Google’s Project Tango Could Prove to be a Game Changer for the Building Industry

7 years 33 weeks ago
"Out of the Ivory Tower, and into the Trenches: is the building industryever receptive to new technologies before they are outdated?

Google has recently begun making its long anticipated self-3D mapping software Project Tango, available to developers interested in using

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Full Phase CPM Schedule Management

7 years 33 weeks ago

The central focus of construction project schedules is invariably on the build-out trajectory, or more specifically, the builder’s work and responsibilities. Despite design deliverables residing squarely within the critical path, they are seldom adequately represented in pre-construction schedules. This practice ultimately does a disservice to the end user, or stakeholders, because it doesn’t

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CPM Baseline, Recovery, Mitigation Schedules: What’s in a Name?

7 years 33 weeks ago

Stakeholders struggle mightily with the definition of the terms baselinerecovery,mitigation, and completion schedules, and how they differ from one another. That is most unfortunate for CPM schedulers who invariably are handed client directives that are less than well planned or reasonable. The difficulty clearly lies in the

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CPM Baselines: Where Did Your CPM Baseline Go?

7 years 33 weeks ago
is sans-baseline becoming de riguer? - a rhetorical question.

CPM baselines are snarky by nature. Many project teams regard them as ends in themselves: issued preliminarily, and then discarded, as opposed to “that to which all that follows shall be compared” (my definition).  I expect stakeholders who don’t realize the absence of a baseline bar in their schedules would

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Free White Paper: Top Ten Prerequisites of a Schedule Baseline

7 years 34 weeks ago

FREE WHITE PAPER: TOP TEN PREREQUISITES OF A SCHEDULE BASELINE

We all want a reliable project baseline for all established processes to work well. The official schedule baseline gives the project a good line of sight to what it wants. Having a good baseline increases the company’s strategic advantage and makes it more successful compared to those who have none. Project baseline must be

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Phantom Schedules

7 years 34 weeks ago

Construction planner and scheduler Frank Lee was at it again. He was in the process of creating and developing another phantom project schedule for the Project Control Manager. The initiative started when the Project Manager complained to the Project Controls Manager.

“You’ve got to be kidding me,” he said, “… this schedule forecast and progress report is garbage! It has been almost a year
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