Tracking Actual Spent Resource Hours at the Project Activity Level While Complying with Project’s Formal Communication Requirements

One of the key challenges that face project planners is how to track and report the actually spent labor and non-labor resource hours at their project schedule activity level in a format that will be formally accepted by the different parties of the contract. Timesheets, labor cards, and other time Read more…

Meeting Minutes

How Can You Stop Wasting and Instead Create Value with the Massive Priceless Information Captured in Meeting Minutes During the Capital Project Life Cycle Phases?

You will never find a single capital project, regardless of its size, type, location, or duration that does not require having meetings between the different project parties. Meetings are scheduled gatherings of individuals for the stated purpose, to discuss and act upon matters of common interest. Meetings serve a valuable Read more…

Setting the Project Control System (PCS) Narrative Management: Key Performance Indicators

Regardless of whether the Project Control System (PCS) was managed by the project owner or contractor, reporting the project’s performance using key performance indicators (KPI) is a must and not a choice. Most of the measures are automatically calculated by the business intelligence (BI)reporting that is either part of the PCS applications or dedicated tools like MS Power BI. To calculate the values of the project’s KPIs, there Read more…