Using Project Management Information Systems (PMIS) To Support the Critical and Challenging Role of Internal Audit for Capital Projects
The growing concerns about committing fraud on capital projects have led many public and private sector organizations to increase the...
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Monitoring, Evaluating, and Reporting the Life Cycle Stages Deliverables of Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) Projects
The execution of Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) Projects goes through several stages known as the PPP Project Life Cycle Stages. For example, those...
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Monitoring and Tracking Task Forces’ Actions in Capital Projects
During the different project life cycle phases, task forces might be established by upper management to break through strict organizational...
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Ensuring Trust Worthy Auditable Information for Capital Assets Valuation
One of the growing requirements for financial institutions that provide finance for capital projects is to have a periodical valuation...
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Building the Capital Project Owners’ Cost Database to Ensure Sound Cost Estimates
Having a reliable, accurate and current cost database is a must requirement for having an accurate project cost estimate which...
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Managing, Monitoring and Tracking New Requests for Capital Projects
For project-centric organizations, there is always an ongoing demand for new project ideas, known as initiatives, to achieve the organization’s...
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How Can Project Management Office (PMO) Use Checklists to Audit Their ISO 10006 and ISO 21500 Compliance?
One of the roles of a Project Management Office (PMO) is to ensure that project management best practices and standards...
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Setting the Project Control System (PCS) Schedule and Resource Management Module: Schedule Performance Reporting
Function 5: Schedule Performance Reporting In addition to the wide variety of the schedule performance reports that could be either...
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Setting the Project Control System (PCS) Schedule and Resource Management Module: Schedule Delays
Function 4: Schedule Delays On construction projects, schedule delay claims that affect the project completion date are becoming a common...
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Setting the Project Control System (PCS) Schedule and Resource Management Module: Resource Management
Function 3: Resource Management One of the requirements of all construction projects is for contractors to load their integrated project...
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Setting the Project Control System (PCS) Schedule and Resource Management Module: Updated Schedules
Function 2: Schedule Update Although the Activity Boards has the details of the actual progress achieved on the project, nevertheless...
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Setting the Project Control System (PCS) Schedule and Resource Management Module: Two-Week Look Ahead Planning
The approved baseline schedule becomes the basis for the short-term planning that is used to execute the project. On a...
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Setting the Project Control System (PCS) Schedule and Resource Management Module: Baseline Schedule
Function 1: Baseline Schedule The project’s baseline resource-loaded schedule created by the planning and scheduling team needs to be formally...
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Setting the Project Control System (PCS) Schedule and Resource Management Module
All professionals who are either involved or have been involved with project controls know that planning and scheduling were the...
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How to Manage the Project Control System Delegation of Authority to Increase Accountability While Performing Project Management Processes
Regardless of the size, type, or location of a construction project, there are always authority approval levels set for each...
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Creating the Project Directory in the Project Control System (PCS)
The project’s responsibility assignment matrix (RAM) provides details of the entities and individuals involved in delivering the project. In addition,...
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Launching a Project in the Project Control System (PCS)
All projects that need to be managed in the Project Control System (PCS) must be added to the PCS applications,...
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Building and Managing the Project Control System (PCS) Team
Fulfilling the different project control system functions requires the formation of the project control team through either utilizing in-house human...
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The Project Control System (PCS) Applications
One of the key things that learned during four decades of being involved in the delivery of construction projects is...
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Project Control System (PCS) on Building Information Modeling (BIM) Enabled Projects
For projects where Building Information Modeling (BIM) is used by the contractor for developing the shop drawings (LOD 400) based...
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