20 Apr 2018 News

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Please find below this weeks newsletter. We hope that you find it adds value to your day. Please visit our sponsors as they keep our servers running and without them, we will cease to exist.

Highlights:

EVA 23: Anticipation
How to Adapt and Thrive in DevOps Era
The Easiest and Fastest Way to Create Time Location for Linear Projects
Primavera P6 export to Excel: How to color WBS level automatically
How to do Rolling Wave Planning in Primeavera P6
Planning Planets NEW collaboration
Pull Planning or Traditional CPM
Planning Planets Networking Events - Previous and Upcoming
Rates, Norms & Durations
OneTouch Program Management

EVA 23: ANTICIPATION

FORWARD FACING PROJECT CONTROLS

Now in its 23rd year, EVA in the UK is leading independent event for project controls and earned value management founded and curated by Steve Wake.

Originally conceived to champion the use of EVM in the UK EVA has grown in focus and perspective. It champions new thinking and original thought and avoids treading the same grapes year in year out.

Possibly the best networking opportunity for senior practitioners and exhibitors in the UK. This year EVA23 will focus strongly on the things that enable us to be ready! Things that prepare us for anything that lies ahead. More than ever a redefinition, a re-setting of what Project Management actually is for, what you use, how you do it and above all, how you communicate with it, is urgently required.

About EVA23

The annual two-day conference takes place at the superb Armourers' Hall in Moorgate, London. The event provides an interesting group of high-level speakers covering a range of topics and industries. EVA23 will be different, entertaining and informative. Dinner will be served in the Hall by candlelight. Come along to talk, listen, learn, discuss and see how best to get project controls right. 3 Specialist workshops are also available outside the conference dates. Including Steve Wake introducing EVM and its use as a management tool for the present day.

Who should attend?

Attendees are middle to very senior professionals with interests in project management, project controls, earned value and keen to learn more about wider issues of transformation, successful change, and benefits-driven portfolios. Attendees can claim 15 hours of professional development on attending this event. It’s not too late to sponsor or exhibit. Sponsor doc available on request. Groups of 4 or more can get a 20% discounted rate or free dinner by applying directly to Steve Wake.

Steve can be contacted on swprojects@blueyonder.co.uk [1]

Conference on 16 -17 May 2018 Click here to find out more and register [2].

IT PROJECT MANAGERS: HOW TO ADAPT AND THRIVE IN THE DEVOPS ERA - CLARIZEN

The rise of DevOps has unleashed a range of technical, workforce and business benefits, including: more deployments, faster lead times, shorter recovery times, lower change failure rates, less unplanned and rework, and even happier people. Indeed, as noted by open source configuration tool maker Puppet, enterprises that boost performance through DevOps methodologies enjoy greater employee loyalty as measured by employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS).

What’s not to love?

Well, more than a few project managers aren’t too enthusiastic about the rise of DevOps, because some of the generalized practices that work fine in conventional project environments don’t transfer over into DevOps culture. Read more [3]...

THE EASIEST AND FASTEST WAY TO CREATE TIME LOCATION CHARTS FOR LINEAR PROJECTS - TURBO CHART

Visit Turbo-Chart [4] to download a full featured 14-day trial Features and Benefits of Turbo-Chart

PRIMAVERA P6 EXPORT TO EXCEL. HOW TO COLOR WBS LEVEL AUTOMATICALLY - DO DUY KHUONG BLOG

After exporting the activity table from Primavera P6 to Excel, it’s very hard to distinguish the WBS level.

To follow a simple step-by-step ensure to Click Here [5]!

HOW TO DO ROLLING WAVE PLANNING IN PRIMAVERA P6 - PLAN ACADEMY

One of the biggest challenges with building project schedules is that often you don’t know the details of a piece of work but you need it on your schedule regardless.

Yes, you know you need to say remediate an area once you’ve installed the watermain underground.

But early in the project, the finer details of what that remediation might look like are scarce.

Enter Rolling Wave Planning...

If you work in IT or software development, everyone knows about Rolling Wave Planning. It’s the foundation of iterative methodologies like SCRUM or Lean. But maybe you didn’t know we can also apply it to construction projects.

What is Rolling Wave Planning?

Rolling Wave planning is a planning technique that involves elaborating more detail in your schedule as more information is available, or as you get nearer to the execution of the work. The idea is to plan in waves and clarify assumptions and approach as the execution of that a piece of work gets nearer. Read the full article here [6]...

PLANNING PLANET COLLABORATION

We are very pleased to announce that we are collaborating with the largest non-recruiter-run group for Project Controls on LinkedIn; the "Planners & Schedulers & Project Control Professional" group.... go see the group [7]...

PULL PLANNING OR TRADITIONAL CPM – HERE’S WHY YOU SHOULD START USING PULL PLANNING

One common question that is always present in every project conversation: how do you engage the stakeholders to provide their input and convert it into a collaborative approach?

Pull planning is a collaborative process that can help to get buy-in from all project participants using a backward pass, pulling activities into the process.

Pull planning is a lean process and is starting to substitute many scheduling techniques and works by identifying activities that are compressed to reduce overall activity duration.

Pull Planning or Traditional CPM? - Read the full article [8]...

PLANNING PLANETS NETWORKING EVENTS - PREVIOUS AND UPCOMING

The Planning Planet Community Gathering which took place in Wolverhampton on Wednesday turned out to be a major success. The evening contained a number of very great industry professional speakers that informed all that attended! It was a great networking opportunity for all and taking in consideration the feedback from attendees the evening ran extremely smoothly.

Following the success from the previous gathering, we have a number of events coming up.

Project Controls Gathering: Johannesburg, SA, Saturday, April 21, 2018 - 10:00 For more information click here [9]
Planning Planet Community: Meeting: NJ/NYC/PA, USA, Thursday, May 17, 2018 - 18:30 For more information click here [10]

If you wish to volunteer to facilitate a meeting ensure to contact us! via PPAdmin@planningplanet.com [11]

You will need to identify a location and date / time and then we can persist to advertise the gathering to ensure that we entice people to attend.

RATES, NORMS & DURATIONS

Production Rates, Norms & Durations

What is needed to come up with a production rate?

A duration of time, the manhours involved, and an amount of work produced?

This section on Planning Planet is here to document this. Check out the rates wiki. [12]..

ONETOUCH PROGRAM MANAGEMENT

OneTouch Program Management by Burns & McDonnell

Live webcast with Q&A May 10

On large projects, the difference between high tech versus low tech, high quality versus rework, and seamless versus multiple seams can easily translate to millions of dollars in savings or additional costs.

Join Burns & McDonnell in a discussion of how technology and efficiency can benefit large linear projects when project processes are designed with that in mind. Learn how Oracle's Primavera Unifier Mobile Application, Document Manager, and Burns & McDonnell’s proprietary geospatial tool OneTouchPM can yield large savings compared to processes that involve a lot of manual work and manpower that still does not promise a high quality outcome.

Join us for the live webcast on May 10. Register today! [13]

Oracle Textura Payment Management Surpasses $500B in Construction Value Managed on System

Oracle has some exciting news to share on the construction payments innovation front: Oracle Textura Payment Management Cloud Service since its inception has now been used to manage subcontractor payments on projects representing more than $500 billion in construction value.

By streamlining, automating, and standardizing payment management activities—including invoicing, compliance management, approvals, lien waiver collection, and disbursement—Oracle Textura Payment Management helps improve payment outcomes and enable organizations to scale operations for growth. General contractors, subcontractors, and project owners/developers can all benefit from increased productivity, reduced risk, and improved communication across stakeholders from the application, which was launched in 2006.

“Our customers rely on Oracle Textura Payment Management to improve efficiency, enhance visibility, mitigate risk, and improve cash flow,” said Mike Sicilia, general manager, senior vice president, Oracle Construction and Engineering. “Reaching this milestone is a testament to the value our application brings to the industry.”

The $500 billion in construction value represents a significant number of projects, documents, and payments that Oracle Textura Payment Management has been used to manage since its launch:

43,000+ projects
Nearly 10 million documents created and electronically signed
$6.2 billion worth of subcontractor payments managed on a monthly basis

To learn more, visit Oracle Textura Payment Management [14] or read our white paper [15] on transforming construction payment management.

New Earned Value Management within Oracle's Primavera Unifier

Live webcast with Q&A May 17

Oracle's Primavera Unifier provides a best-in-class cloud-based solution for managing capital projects and facilities of any size in every vertical market. Join us for this live webcast with Q&A to learn about the new Earned Value Management capabilities, including:

Preconfigured integration with Primavera P6 to synchronize resources, roles, and activities
Enhanced cost rating functionality at project level
Enhanced Activity Sheet that supports multiple P6 Projects, including Resource Assignments and daily spreads
Activity Sheet displays current project and baseline
Earned Value Management graphs and tables by WBS and CBS Register today! [16]

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