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Customer Spotlight: DMC Mining Services Case Study: Accurate Reporting and Operational and Financial Improvements at DMC

This case study explores DMC's search for project controls software that would provide them with a systematic pathway for monitoring, controlling, and forecasting projects. Download this case study to learn more about how DMC has made operational and financial improvements, sped up turnaround time, increased accuracy of reporting, and optimized resources with reduced work duplication.  Read more...

New eBook: Earned Value Management Guide

Earned value management is a valuable method used by many leading project organizations as well as federal and government agencies around the globe. Instantly access our new Earned Value Management eBook that dives into project management with EVM versus traditional management without it. It also covers basic concepts of EVM, earned value methodology, EVM history, benefits of earned value, and EIA-748 standard.  Read more...

TASK SPLITTING IN MICROSOFT PROJECT

Task Splitting is normally switched on in Microsoft Project and users end up with splits at the start of a task which is quite difficult to sort out.

If you wish to understand how Task Splitting in Microsoft Project works then this article is an extract from the books written by Paul Harris, click on this link>>>.

Accelerate your understanding of scheduling software to advance your scheduling career and be able to prepare better schedules with Eastwood Harris books, online videos available through Udemy and training material on:

• Microsoft Project,
• Oracle Primavera P6 and 
• Elecosoft (Asta) Powerproject 

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Paul E Harris

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Your Guide to the Behaviors That Will Drive Consistent Future Success! 

In projects-driven organizations, high performance means delivering the right projects, on time and on budget. Enterprise Project Performance (EPP) is the philosophy that you can only sustain high performance by considering how ALL projects and resources contribute to business objectives. 

Imagine having the opportunity to discover all the Secrets of High Performing Projects and learn about behaviors that will drive consistent future success. Earlier this year EcoSys Hexagon's EPP solution team up with the Project Management Institute and asked members of the world’s leading project management community, ProjectManagement.com, what they think about the future of projects.

Specifically, focusing on topics like trust, performance, and technology surrounding large-scale engineering, construction or major equipment manufacturing projects this research generated a 50+ page report filled with insights that will help you maximize project performance at your organization.

Download the eBook created from the results of this research to learn more about topics such as:

How to address some of the challenges related to recovery from COVID-19. How high-performing organizations differentiate themselves to deliver big results. Steps to maximize the effectiveness of project technology. Why trust in data is the single biggest factor in project success.

Hexagon’s PPM division empowers its clients to transform unstructured information into a smart digital asset to visualize, build, and manage structures and facilities of all complexities, ensuring safe and efficient operation throughout the entire lifecycle.

The Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) 14-point assessment helps the Department of Defense evaluate schedules to see whether they are well-built and adhere to best practices that are important to the success of the project.

Most of the DCMA 14-Point metrics look only at activities that are baselined with a duration > 0d. The two exceptions are the Critical Path Test and the BEI. 

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Turnaround Work Package Planning and Management: 4 Common Challenges

After defining your turnaround scope, you need to gather the work to be done in work packages. For the successful implementation of a turnaround it’s key to prepare a detailed work package planning, containing a list of activities and required tools and materials needed to carry out the job.

As the saying goes: ‘’A good beginning is half the task’’. However, it seems that this is easier said than done. We notice that companies are facing various challenges while preparing work package planning which leads to inefficient execution of the turnaround.

Watch the video to learn about the 4 most common challenges and how to overcome them.

Infographic

How to fix the top 10 Project Cost Management mistakes

With all that goes into managing a project, making sure things are done right, within budget, and on time is a challenge, especially when we fall victim to the same mistakes.

The Cleopatra Enterprise team is familiar with the good, the bad, and the ugly of projects based on over 25 years of experience in the field.

Download the infographic to get a list with the most common project cost management problems that we have seen and our proposed solutions to fix them.

What’s in the infographic?

• Being Reactive Instead of Proactive
• Poor Communication & Visibility with Stakeholders
• Underestimating Time & Budget Needed
• AND MORE...

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Spider Project

Spider Project offers numerous unique functional features and is the only PM software that optimizes resource, cost, and material constrained schedules and budgets for projects and portfolios. 

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Still sharing P6 schedule data in static PDF file formats?

Do you want to learn how you can improve project communication and share primavera schedule data with your broader project team in a cost-effective way that will also improve your project execution, control and reporting processes?

In this webinar, we will introduce you to ScheduleReader, an independently developed reader solution that visualizes the information from existing XER and XML schedules. The software provides project professionals with interactive and dynamic way to view, analyze and report on schedule data as opposed to using static PDF prints to view and communicate information.

Learn more about the full potential and benefits of adopting this innovative solution at the free webinar presentation organized by Akim Engineering. Read More…

Sending files to owners, contractors, subcontractors or claims consultants? 

ScheduleCleaner will allow you to optimize your workflow and quickly tailor project schedules to each individual stakeholder. 

By removing, converting or masking any confidential data such as: costs, resource names, POBS, risks, pricing, UDFs, activity codes, notes, project codes and more, you can ensure your project file contains only the information the end user needs to see.

ScheduleCleaner will create a modified copy of the original XER or XML project file which is ready to be shared outside your organization, while preserving a copy of your original schedule and data intact with just a few clicks of a button. 

Fast simple and automated. Try ScheduleCleaner for free today! Read More.

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