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5 Tips for Project Controls Job Hunting Success
December 19, 2017
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“ I have applied for any job posting you can imagine, but no success…” “Things are pretty grim, the oil and gas industry has been further down and more people have lost jobs including myself, it’s tough…” “ I was let go from the company in the latest round of layoffs last week…” “ We are going through
5 Key Lessons I Learned That Transformed My Year
December 18, 2017
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As we are approaching the end of the year and are busy with doing our last-minute Christmas shopping to bring joy to our loved ones, I thought what gift I can give you that could serve you not only during the holidays but also for the year ahead. I thought it is best if I
Municipal Utility Saves Major Costs with Effective Risk Management – Power Engineering®️
December 15, 2017
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Municipal Utility Saves Major Costs with Effective Risk Management Power Engineering®️
Forensic Schedule Analysis Lessons Webcast Q&A
November 19, 2017
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Chris Carson, FRICS, FAACE, FGPC, PSP, DRMP, CEP, CCM, PMP, a thought leader on Forensic Schedule Analysis, conducted a live webcast on “Forensic Schedule Analysis Lessons You Need to Learn Today To Proactively Prevent Claims Tomorrow”. Chris Carson shared some important lessons learned from 40 years of performing forensic schedule analysis, scheduling, and schedule review
My Interview With the Vice President of an Award-Winning Fortune 500 Company
October 29, 2017
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I had the honor of interviewing Matt Sellers, the Vice President of Project Development at Kiewit, one of FORTUNE 500 world’s most admired companies. Matt Sellers is truly the epitome of southern hospitality. Born and raised in Texas, he was nothing but charming and gracious in our interview as he answered my myriad of questions
How to Display the Critical Path Leading to a “Specific Activity” in P6?
October 17, 2017
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In Primavera P6 Professional, when you use the default “Critical” filter, it will display the critical path for the entire project (up to the last activity on the critical path), Figure 1. What if you want to show the critical path leading to an activity, which is somewhere in the middle of the project, not the
Addressing uncertainties in decommissioning cost estimates – World Nuclear News
October 3, 2017
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Addressing uncertainties in decommissioning cost estimates World Nuclear News
How to Calculate Earned Schedule
September 30, 2017
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In this training, I am going to show you how you can calculate the “Earned Schedule”. I assume you already know what “Earned Schedule” is. If not, please make sure that you watch another video that I have prepared for you entitled “Earned Schedule- An improvement to EVM Scheduling Metrics.” To measure Earned Schedule, we
Earned Schedule- An improvement to EVM Scheduling Metrics
September 16, 2017
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Earned Value Management (EVM) is a powerful tool for evaluating the schedule and cost performance of projects and predicting future results. However, existing earned value schedule performance metrics does not do a good job with schedule performance evaluation and prediction. Use of “Earned Schedule” enhances the earned value management ’s ability to better represent and
Why the EVM Scheduling Metrics Are NOT Reliable!
August 27, 2017
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“Your critical path schedule shows behind schedule. How come your EVM schedule performance indicates an ahead of schedule status?” “What is wrong with your SPI report?” “We are going to finish this project 3 months behind the schedule. Tell me why your SPI is showing a good schedule performance?” Have you ever faced an angry