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Project Scheduling

Customer Spotlight: Aerospace & Defense

In 2014, the enterprise software for operating systems across the desktops of a large Aerospace & Defense company was being upgraded from XP to Windows 7.  While the upgrade was beneficial from a company-wide technology perspective, it effectively made the company’s current Schedule Risk Assessment and Analysis tool – Primavera Risk Analytics (PRA / formerly known as Pertmaster) – obsolete. Team leaders were faced with a decision to either upgrade their current software or look at something brand new.  They decided to explore their available options.

Advanced Project Scheduling

Description:

During last 20 years popular project management software packages improved user interface, added collaboration functionality and project portfolio reporting but did very little in improving scheduling functionality.

This presentation discusses some features that are required or can be useful for creating and analyzing project schedule, but absent in most project management packages. Most of them are included in Spider Project software and are widely used by project management teams in Russia and Eastern Europe.

Project Scheduling Enhancements for Avoiding Litigation

Project Scheduling Enhancements for Avoiding Litigation” by Anamaria Popescu and others.

The study surveyed use of eight functional improvements in scheduling:

Phoenix Project Manager

Phoenix Project Manager is an easy to use construction project management system.  Phoenix helps project managers, schedulers and the rest of the project team streamline managing projects.  Phoenix seamlessly integrates with traditional scheduling tools like Primvare P6 and Microsoft Project to extend schedule management to the entire project team.  

 

www.phoenixcpm.com

Market Place

Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project books, on-line video training courses and training material available from an internationally recognised publisher. Teach yourself using on-line or book based learning or run your own in-house or public courses.
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