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How To Avoid Scope Creep in Your Next Shutdown Turnaround Outage (STO) 

In this blog we look at what scope creep is and 5 ways to avoid it when planning for your next shutdown turnaround outage project. Five key areas covered are:

1. Establishing the needs and parameters
2. The importance of thorough planning
3. Using technology and automation to increase efficiency
4. Choosing the right team, clearly defining their roles, empowering them, and giving them the required working time for the role
5. Adhering to your Management of Change process

Primavera P6 stores its data in a database, which can hold millions of values, dates, and other data. When working with huge amounts of data, it is highly typical for the database to become corrupted. 

This type of database corruption can include erroneous POBS data and unwanted risk types.

See how you can safely and securely share XER and XML project schedule data without the threats of corrupting another P6 user’s database.

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Methods and Tools to Support a Business-Driven Project Management Office

In our fast changing world of capital projects, many organizations are looking to digitally transform their Project Management Office (PMO). Their goal is better control of their project portfolio.

Project management methodologies, certifications and tools have around for many years and have considerably increased the maturity of PMOs. However, even as projects are managed better and better, outcomes are still not predictable, overruns still happen, and projects fail to deliver intended business results far too often.

Why is this? Read the blog post to learn more...

When a new user is created in P6 Professional many of the default setting are not ideal and the user should consider changing some of the following settings to make the software easier to use:

• User Preferences and
• Menu Settings

This paper outlines the changes a newly created user should consider making to their User Preferences and menu settings to make P6 simpler to use.

Click here to view this paper>>>.

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 

Details at Eastwood Harris

Paul E Harris
Director Eastwood Harris Pty Ltd

The Linear Scheduling Method and the Critical Path Method are two well-known scheduling methods that can be used by project managers throughout the project lifecycle to ensure the creation and maintenance of a project plan.

This article will give you a detailed overview of these methods and help you understand which one is better suited for your project.

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"What people often think is that Cost Engineers are budget engineers, but there is much more to them..." - the quote by Ko Des Bouvrie - the founder of Cost Engineering, who created the companies more than 25 years ago together with Chris Hagedoorn.

Learn what it's like to be a cost engineer through the eyes of a professional and a self-proclaimed "Eager Beaver"!

Read the latest interview (in Dutch) of one of the founders of Cost Engineering & Cleopatra Enterprise - Ko des Bouvrie, by the "View on Value" magazine.  Read more....

Cost Engineering Academy is an academy of professionals with over 25 years of experience, which shares knowledge and experience in the field of project controls. Level up your current and/or new coming career path with the upcoming courses in 2023:

CCT & CCP Certification courses

The ultimate courses to gain internationally accredited Certified Cost Professional (CCP) & Certified Cost Technician (CCT) certifications

• CCT course 
• CCP course

Learn the techniques and methodologies that make the difference between a good and an excellent work package planner

Cleopatra Enterprise starts a new company-wide podcast series, The HonesTea Podcast, to discover colleague stories and dive into different roles from various departments.

In the newest episode, they sat down with Shamir Sheikkariem, Cleopatra’s Business Developer and Mining Expert. Check out this episode to uncover what Shamir’s job title entail, how he applies his background in mining to his daily work, his latest business trip to Latin America, and more.

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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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