Archive for the ‘What We Learnt Today in Project Management’ Category

Another Reason not to use Negative Lag

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

Novice planners often are led to believing that because they can add a negative lag in a relationship it is a satisfactory linking method. The reality is it is not and the use of negative lag can result in delays.

Lost Opportunity Defined

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

Lost opportunity represents a small problem within a project schedule where, for some reason, excessive float exists. This article demonstrates and explains the term.

Factoring Risk in Schedules: Primavera Risk Analysis

Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

Factoring risk into project schedules has never been easier or more methodical than using Primavera Risk Analysis. Providing a better method of analysing the risk to your programme, you can quickly provide a more realistic picture of the risks to your project.

10 Steps to Tender Planning

Saturday, July 31st, 2010

Ten simple steps to help alleviate the stress of tender planning. On large scale tender bids, it can be easy to become overwhelmed by the amount of work to achieve in such a short space of time.

Weather Modelling a Project Plan: Primavera Risk Analysis Reviewed

Friday, July 30th, 2010

Using Primavera Risk Analysis to account for inclement weather in your programmes is a breeze. What’s more is that the process leads to a more reflective and realistic result because we utilise an approach to risk management and analysis that in itself, is a reflection on real world events.

Percentage Complete Assessment

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

Quick methods to assess design progress

Quick Multiple Resource Assignments

Friday, June 11th, 2010

How to quickly add resource assignments to collections of activities – all in one go!

4 Weekly Filter

Friday, June 4th, 2010

Setting a simple filter to show activities that should have started but have not finished or activities that are supposed to start within the next month.

Creating Efficiency in Site Visits

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

If you are like us, and both enjoy but dread the process of obtaining site progress information then this article may be of some relief to you.
Site progress information gathering is all about taking a copy of the plan, putting on a hard hat and boots and walking around the site to assess Physical Percent [...]

Better Rollup Reporting – Defining Outline Codes

Saturday, May 15th, 2010

How to provide better rollup reporting through outline codes in Microsoft Project