How do you assign weightage to your projects or different phases in the same project or different activities in the same phase?

  How do you assign weightage to your projects or different phases in the same project or different activities in the same phase? If you are doing only on the basis of cost or time, you are missing out on many other vital aspects as shown in the picture. This Venn diagram helps us in…

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Planning through Milestones

Its a pity that the way conventional planning is done from start to the end is a bit different from what practical experience often challenges us to accept. This post is about how we can improve our planning skills using reverse engineering (don’t be afraid though if you are not an engineer , its simple)…

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How do you know how much work have you completed of what you planned ?

How do you know how much work have you completed of what you planned ? There are three ways of doing it : (1) Physical – Its a guesstimate, when nothing is available we use this (2) Duration – (Time elapsed + Time left) is compared against Planned duration (3) Units – (Effort spent +…

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Do you know what breakdown structure is your company following when it comes to managing projects?

An Enterprise wide project structure can be created in many ways as shown in the attached image. Although its not easy to stick to one type of structure whether its division-wise or location-wise, its a good idea to develop an EPS Plan for use within the tools such as P6 as part of Project Controls…

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Team player qualities – let’s learn from the trees :

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better. So, the first step is to develop the team player qualities among team members. Here is how we can learn these from mother nature. Team player qualities – let’s learn from the…

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What we can learn from our childhood sometimes it is hard to learn from our profession

Precious successful “Team Building” lessons we can learn from our childhood : (1) How to make friends ? (2) The meaning of Life… (3) The best compliment anyone can give…. (4) How to be above the law ?? (5) How to ask someone out ? (6) Why I got all those detentions ? (7) How…

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