Steps to Successfully Complete a Project Handoff
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by Joe Somerville
Delays and unforeseen changes in project scope can result in poor deadline adherence or failure of your project. While you can avoid many of these problems through diligent scheduling and monitoring of activities, you will encounter times when you need to speed up the delivery of your project. Rather than cutting corners and reducing the…
Read moreSpeed up Project Delivery With These Three Steps
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by Jeff Collins
Delays and unforeseen changes in project scope can result in poor deadline adherence or failure of your project. While you can avoid many of these problems through diligent scheduling and monitoring of activities, you will encounter times when you need to speed up the delivery of your project. Rather than cutting corners and reducing the…
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Solutions to the Most Common Primavera P6 Calendars Problems
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by Joe Somerville
Although Primavera P6 is one of the most useful tools for project managers, it is not without some policies. Depending on a project manager specific actions and navigations within Primavera P6, Primavera P6 calendars may change and result in different errors. Fortunately, solutions to these areas can be found relatively quickly and fixed before they cause permanent problems…
Read moreReduce Project Costs in 4 Steps
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by Jeff Collins
A project’s success is directly influenced by how well its scope, time, and cost are managed. However, learning how to manage and reduce project costs can be the toughest of the three areas to master. Project cost can be difficult to manage because of the number of variables that cause it to fluctuate. A single missed…
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Project Visibility a Key to Business Success
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by Jeff Collins
The collaborative nature of any project requires that all information pertaining to that project needs to be integrated and visible to all project stakeholders. These include company executives, senior management, the project team, and all external stakeholders. Project visibility requires that clear definitions of the scope of project deliverables, project risk, budgeted, actual, and forecast…
Read moreProject Performance Management: How to Deal with Poor Project Performers
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by Jeff Collins
Many organizations have a difficult time with project performance management, especially when it comes to managing poor project performers. This could be for a variety of reasons. The management staff may not like the conflict. The poor performers might also be well liked by the staff. In many cases the managers might prefer to try…
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Project Management Software Improves Oil and Gas Industry Project Delivery
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by Jeff Collins
Oil and gas industry projects are multi-faceted and always changing, so managers no longer use white boards and sticky notes to track progress. For assurance of project delivery success, a system is required that will provide you with visibility and control of your work. Whatever the size of your oil and gas company, project management software…
Read moreProfessional Development Options and Courses for Project Managers
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Growing your career as a project manager requires you to constantly expand your knowledge. While thousands of books and courses have been created to improve your professional development, understanding what options exist is still complicated.You need to know which professional development options and courses will be the most beneficial for your career. 1. Local Certifications…
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Oracle Primavera Software: Calculating Duration Percentage Complete
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by Joe Somerville
Calculating duration percentage for the Oracle Primavera software can often times be a confusing and challenging process. To make this easier to understand, we have broken down the basics and provided you with the formula in order to calculate the Duration percentages Complete for your project management processes. How to Calculate Duration Percentage Complete for Oracle Primavera…
Read moreOracle Primavera P6: Automatically Calculating Physical % Complete
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by Joe Somerville
Often managers are uncomfortable with the “guesstimate” given for percent complete. The Oracles Primavera P6 steps feature becomes very useful when they are weighted to drive the percent complete in a way that is less subjective and more quantifiable. Generally, steps are a way to track deliverables or any sub-activity without adding activities and complexity to…
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New Features of Oracle Prime Every Project Manager Should Know
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by Joe Somerville
The complexity and scope of today’s projects and portfolios are growing. Throughout recent years, the value of Oracle Primavera P6 stood out as an undisputed leader in project and portfolio planning, execution, delivery and completion. But, project managers were looking for web based solution, giving rise to the development of Oracle Prime, an integral component…
Read moreNeed Oracle Primavera Help? Here Are 20 Tips and Tricks
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One of the most important resources that you have available to you is Oracle’s Primavera project management software. There’s a reason why many have called it the single best planning and scheduling tool ever designed. Despite its versatility, it isn’t always easy to use. If you need Oracle Primavera help, here are 20 different tips and…
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