Risk Register with Dashboard for Risk Communication
7 years 23 weeks agoRisk communication is required and crucial to keeping Stakeholders in the loop regarding project health and progress. It is arduous to please higher management and other Key Stakeholders by communicating nebulous (vague) project Risk status.
Lack of communication is a top most factor that contributes to Risk growth. Wordy, pointless and lengthy power point presentations make no
The Power To Save A Life
7 years 23 weeks agoAs we discussed last time, the resource-loaded schedule represents a project manager’s most valuable tool for understanding and controlling the time and money requirements on any given project. With a continued focus on schedule importance, this article seeks to understand the correlation between schedule pressure and safety performance. More specifically, does a protracted or compressed
10 reasons your project is behind schedule
7 years 25 weeks agoUnfortunately 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 incur additional costs to remain longer on the project. The customer receives access to their facility late and usually faces additional costs for
5 Things You Might Not Have Been Told
7 years 25 weeks ago5 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 thoughts and are non-prescriptive principles that have guided me thus far in my ProjectSuccessful Projects--What We Really Know
7 years 25 weeks agoThe 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 long-term trends provides an interesting perspective. Over the past two decades,
Can we avoid project delays caused by bad weather?
7 years 26 weeks agoHas 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 think you won’t encounter rain, winds, summer, and winter at some stage in the course of your project! If you have 500mm (20
Create P6 resources dictionary using excel without using SDK
7 years 26 weeks agoThe 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 doesn’t have the privilege to install it or the resource sheet in the SDK is not working with P6 version that the scheduler has. In this article I
Time Equals Money
7 years 27 weeks agoWe have all been told that time equals money. Even, time is money. But what does any of that truly mean? Time and money separately are highly debatable subjects. The combination of the two can certainly be a conundrum. However, it is this author’s belief that in construction, this may as well be a law of the universe. Consider this. He or she who controls the schedule of the project
What you need to know to close-out your construction project successfully
7 years 27 weeks agoMany construction projects are financially successful until the end, when costs suddenly spiral out of control. The main reason for the additional costs is because the project isn’t completed on time. When I say completed, I don’t just mean handed over, I mean one hundred percent finished.
I’ve visited projects long after they have been completed, yet the contractor’s offices and workers