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Watch: Basic Guidelines for Quantity Tracking in P6

Bryan Ritch — Sat, 21 Mar 2020 22:07:58 +0000

PMA Consultant’s John Hill shows how to present tracked quantities in Primavera P6 as an alternative to critical path analysis to better understand the project. He demonstrates how to select quantity tracking related to project progress and compare them with construction and contract documents. Measure you quantity tracking against a baseline plan curve from a resource loaded schedule.

John Hill, PE
John has extensive experience providing senior engineering support services, including related project management assignments. His expertise includes project control, specifically scheduling; project management; construction coordination; contract administration; and civil engineering. Mr. Hill has extensive experience with Primavera P6 scheduling software and previous versions and other scheduling software.

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Watch: Managing Working Hours in Primavera P6

Bryan Ritch — Sat, 21 Mar 2020 22:07:43 +0000

PMA’s Shane Wilhelmsen gives step-by-step instructions on managing working hours in Primavera P6. It’s important to be aware that P6 is always calculating your project in hours and minutes. This can lead to unexpected results or inconsistencies in your schedule. Learn how time setting can impact a schedule and how to identify them.

Shane Wilhelmsen, PMP, PMI-RMP, PMI-SP
Shane is a project controls professional whose responsibilities include development of contract time determination schedules based on design plans & specifications during the project development process. Responsibilities for active construction projects include facilitating and actively participating in biweekly project meetings, working with contractors and suppliers to resolve project issues, monitoring progress against the overall project plan through CPM and delay log analysis, analyzing and reporting on project metrics, preparing both detailed technical reports and high-level executive summaries, escalating potential risks, and offering informed recommendations.

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Exchanging Information Between NetPoint and Primavera P6

Bryan Ritch — Sat, 16 Nov 2019 17:53:25 +0000

Learn best practices and helpful tips for exchanging information between NetPoint and Primavera P6. The session outlines the relevant differences between the two tools and how to minimize their impact on import/export to maintain the integrity of the schedule. Follow along for sample scenarios to demonstrate the process of importing and exporting schedules.

Vivek Puri PhD, PMP, EIT

Dr. Vivek Puri has significant experience with planning and executing projects in both construction and information technology areas. Dr. Puri’s recent work involves research and development relating to NetPoint, NetRisk, and Schedule MD, three innovative tools developed in-house by PMA. His doctoral work was in the area of simulation applications for construction planning.

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WATCH: How do you select the right tool for a PMIS?

Bryan Ritch — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 01:29:06 +0000

PMA’s Dina Keirouz discusses the role of a PMIS in construction project management. Gone are the days of spending an entire day looking at hard copy documents pulled from numerous files of project team members. Digitization/visualization of project data to support informed decisions by the project team is the new norm. In today’s environment, a state-of-the-art project management information system (PMIS) is a must-have for efficient project management. An effective PMIS ensures project communication and improves execution and outcome, no matter the project size.

Learn how to select the right PMIS tool.

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WATCH: Why is PMIS Important in Project Management?

Bryan Ritch — Mon, 11 Nov 2019 01:25:59 +0000

PMA’s Dina Keirouz discusses the role of a PMIS in construction project management. Gone are the days of spending an entire day looking at hard copy documents pulled from numerous files of project team members. The new norm is the digitization and visualization of project data to support informed decisions by the project team. In today’s environment, a state-of-the-art project management information system (PMIS) is a must-have for efficient project management. An effective PMIS ensures project communication and improves execution and outcome, no matter the project size.

Learn more about the value of PMIS.

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WATCH: Schedule Risk Assessment Early and Late “P80” Dates

Bryan Ritch — Sat, 26 Oct 2019 19:47:48 +0000

The CPM algorithm’s ability to develop bounding early/late dates using activity durations and logic was a new scheduling paradigm that has sustained CPM as the scheduling method of choice since 1957. However, in Monte Carlo probabilistic scheduling, CPM develops only the early completion distribution curve.

This keynote will: 1) reveal how the GPM probabilistic scheduling algorithm, by allowing activities to float in every iteration, develops both the statistical early and late schedules, unveiling early/late bounding completion distribution envelopes from which practitioners can infer more realistic 80% confidence level completion aka P80 dates; and 2) question continued reliance on CPM risk assessment tools that promote optimistic P80 dates. The hoped-for outcome is a path toward more realistic schedule risk analysis results.

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WATCH: Creating a Baseline Schedule in P6

pma — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 12:59:57 +0000

PMA’s Wayne Beauregard discusses how to create, maintain, and assign baseline schedules in Primavera P6. A baseline schedule is a copy of your current schedule taken at a point in time. In construction, you typically create a baseline at the point in the project when you need a benchmark for future comparison or progress or to perform what-if scenarios. A common use is to baseline the initial or contract schedule to measure performance as the project progresses. Although many baseline schedules can be created only two can be used at a time for comparison.

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WATCH: Calendar Settings in Primavera P6

pma — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 12:56:49 +0000

PMA’s Shane Wilhelmsen discusses calendar settings in Primavera P6. Learn the difference between global and project calendars and how this can impact the data you’re viewing.

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