What is a Gantt Chart and what is it for? These are two questions that any professional of the Planning and Project Controls industry has asked at some point. Before getting into flour, we want to highlight that we are facing one of the tools within project planning that have had the most since its […]
In our post about what is a Gantt Chart we show you a first approach to one of the most used tools in the Project Planning and Project Controls world. In this post, we are going to teach you how to make a Gantt Chart step by step so that you can become a true […]
Greetings Gantt´s children, we welcome you to a new video of the Project Scheduling Glossary. Today we are going to answer this question: what is a WBS (Work Breakdown Structure)? Let´s start. Are you ready? What is a WBS (Work Breakdown Structure)? Imagine that you are the coach of a soccer team and you have […]
The moment of truth arrives. It is time to progress our schedule. After creating a template that shows us the activities planned for the next 3 months, we will use the Primavera P6 Progress Spotlight function to focus on the activities that will start within a certain period of time from the date cutoff or […]
If you are reading this post, that is because you first read our post about the Earned Value Methods to evaluate work performance or you have a copy of the book Earned Value Management, by Roland Wanner. The “Percent Start/Percent Finish EV Method” (also known as “Fixed Formula Method”), such as 50/50 and 0/100 Earned […]
There are situations in life that force us for working remotely. Perhaps the “bug”, as the authorities now want to call SARS-VOC-2, is showing us the way to this new work model that companies have so often refused to accept. Therefore, from Project 2080, we want to give you some tips that we consider essential […]
It’s time to share XER files (Primavera P6 file extension) with your client or other contractors and we are surprised that the version of Primavera P6 they work with does not accept this file. Then the panic begins. The phone calls requesting that the file be sent again in another previous version, the consultations with […]
Throughout the life cycle of a project, from the project baseline is created until we obtain a schedule that shows how activities have been executed (as-built schedule), a large number of unknown events occurred. These events might cause delays in the achievement of the different work packages, as well as for contractual project milestones. These […]
Sometimes we face real challenges within a new project. Challenges that include making a schedule with a multitude of parties involved. Different stakeholders that add value to the project and that are interconnected with other parties within the project. This is accentuated even more when we are talking about megaprojects. Projects that can easily exceed […]
During the last few years, we have been able to observe how our world is changing. The Internet of Things, the Big Data or the Blockchain are just some new friends that have come into our lives. But if you think you’ve seen it all after reading our article about Blockchain and Project Management, do […]