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Integrated Project Management: Harnessing Technology for Success.
Imagine this: you’re driving to a new destination. You’ve got a map and you’re an experienced driver,but this is new terrain, you don’t know the landmarks, the signposts are in an unfamiliar language, theweather is…
- 17 Feb 2020
End-to-end project management for a Metro Rail Project
Metro rail projects are highly complex, because they involve many stakeholders – Govt. authorities, Project Owner organizations, Investors, EPC contractor and many more sub-contractors & consultants. Each piece of the project is built by the joint efforts…
- 21 Jan 2020
Emerging trends in risk management
For most of us project risk management straightaway connects with risk identification, prioritization, response planning, contingency planning and implementation. What is really exciting is the fact that risk management landscape is fast changing or rather…
- 17 Jan 2020
3 Steps to Accurate Project Cost Estimation and Budgeting
Completing the projects within budget is a subject of very high interest for project managers. Unfortunately. cost over runs continue to be very common. As per recent Economic times report; 423 infra projects show cost…
- 28 Nov 2019
EVM Progress monitoring using S Curves and histograms of engineering deliverables
One of the biggest problems facing project managers is the lack of on-time project progress data. By the time progress information reaches them on a weekly or monthly basis, a lot of precious time has…
- 20 Nov 2019
7 steps to define Project’s Organization Breakdown Structure (OBS)
The planning, organizing and delivery of large projects are extremely complex. The success or failure of such projects are determined by the project strategy. Large projects also involve many different stakeholders entering and exiting the…
- 14 Nov 2019
Bullet proofing Engineering Progress Monitoring & Control
By harnessing the power of electronic data management and earned value management systems, engineering progress monitoring and control can be improved considerably resulting in improved project velocity.
- 14 Nov 2019
Work Break Down Structures – 10 Key Characteristics
Divide and rule is the philosophy behind developing the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). Creation of WBS happens after scope definition and before the development of the project schedule. Once the requirements are collected, and the scope is defined, then it is time to decompose the scope into a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). The WBS is a deliverable oriented grouping of work. It decomposes the complete scope of the project into smaller manageable components known as Work Packages. WBS provide the break up of work that needs to be performed to construct and deliver the deliverables of the project. Read more
- 07 Nov 2019
Strategic Management of Projects
How do you choose the right project strategy? In this post, we discuss how an overall project strategy is formed from various sub-strategies, and how these sub-strategies guide decision-making and action.
- 31 Oct 2019
4 Steps to developing a high quality project scope
Recent paradigm shift in scope definition Traditionally, the project management metrics of time, cost, scope and quality have been the most important factors in defining the success of a project. More recently, practitioners and scholars…
- 17 Oct 2019
