11 Killer Interview Questions For Hiring A Project Controller
Hiring for any position is always risky business. There are no guarantees once the interview is over that the winning…
A Basic Overview Of Construction Submittals
Strolled into your office today to a desk buried under a stack of reports? Chances are they’re Construction submittals –…
3 Up-and-Coming Project Scheduling Tools You May Not Know About
Last week’s Construction CPM Conference in San Diego was a big success! It was my first time attending (and presenting…
8 Steps Project Controls Professionals Must Take for a Killer LinkedIn Profile
For years, LinkedIn was the ugly stepchild of Facebook … a little more professional, a little harder to use, a…
How to Motivate and Inspire Others with Your Project Story
I want to hear your story. I want to hear about how your schedule was a nightmare from the start…
A Go-To Guide to Building a Cringe-Worthy Primavera P6 Schedule
The meeting had gone well. I was going to win some business and they were going to get complete Primavera…
6 Interview Must-Dos To Nail That Project Controls Job
So you’ve spent a few weeks filling out applications and making phone calls, and finally, the moment you’ve been waiting…
What in the World is an S-Curve? [In under 100 words]
An S-curve is a graph of the expenditure of project resources over time. Typical S-curves graph either costs or resource…
Understand Hard Constraints vs Soft Constraints [in under 100 words]
Primavera P6 supports 2 types of constraints; hard constraints and soft constraints. In Primavera P6, “Mandatory” constraints are hard constraints….
4 Reasons Users Might Refuse to Use Your Integrated Primavera P6 System
I remember a gift I bought my parents once – a motorized corkscrew that promised to make opening a bottle…
5 Things You Should Know About Primavera P6 Calendars
Primavera P6 has a pretty smart scheduling engine built-in, but it’s not quite smart enough to know what time to…
7 Ways to Grow Your Project Management Smarts
Nov 7th is the 9th annual International Project Management Day. International Project Management Day is a day to be…
What is Primavera P6 Visualizer?
The new version of Primavera P6, r8.3, has been released recently, and one of the new features is a stand-alone…
20 Must-See TED talks for Planning Professionals
TED.com is one of our favourite sources for inspiration and awe. If you’ve never visited TED.com or watched some of the…
Create a P6 Project Dashboard in Excel
Tutorial Files Excel Spreadsheet (Excel 2007+): PTuts_Project_Dashboard.xlsm – 1.5Mb One of our previous site manager told us (the project control…