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Giving Notice for Delays | Primavera Scheduling There's a book on my shelf that I love to pull down every few months because it contains such great advice for construction projects: Sweet on Construction Law.

Primavera P6 contains a feature that I can take some responsibility for recommending. For those of you who do not know much of the history of Primavera P6, the legacy program - Primavera Project Planner - was introduced in 1983 by Primavera Systems. And while we are going down memory lane, Microsoft Project was introduced the same year. Ask Netscape Navigator what it is like competing with Microsoft....

The Primavera P6 Feature We Added | Primavera Scheduling Primavera P6 contains a feature that I can take some responsibility for recommending. For those of you who do not know much of the history of Primavera P6, the legacy program - Primavera Project Planner - was introduced in 1983 by Primavera Systems. And while we are going down memory lane, Microsoft...

The Practical Professor My wife and I have a vacation home in Truckee, California. Whenever we are up there we get together with a couple who have a second home just two doors down from ours. During our last visit we met the wife's charming mother for the first time. After several hours of pleasantries she asked me a slightly odd question: [ 1,146 more word ]

Auto Draft The Practical Professor My wife and I have a vacation home in Truckee, California. Whenever we are up there we get together with a couple who have a second home just two doors down from ours. Durin…

Resources add "weight" to a schedule. That is to say, resources can tell us the effort - in costs and/or hours - required to perform a task. Once resources have been added to an activity we now realize that tasks with similar durations are not so similar when the effort is considered. Back in the early 1980s I would sometimes be asked by owner representatives to explain how many people were required each day in order to stay on schedule. [ 796 more words ]

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Learning how to do something is not the same as learning why something should be done. Most of us have been told at various by a supervisor or boss to do something without any explanation. There may be some urgency in the request and for that reason alone there is not much time to explain why it needs to be done. [ 1,012 more word ]

Why vs. How Learning how to do something is not the same as learning why something should be done. Most of us have been told at various by a supervisor or boss to do something without any explanation. There ma…