Our customers are often Project Managers who have an interest in reducing project cost or reducing project duration. We also work with Chief Executive Officers, Project Control Managers, Schedulers, and Superintendents who also have interests in scheduling and productivity improvement. Different individuals in the organization will have a different understanding of operations management and how to add productivity to project execution. We’ve put the following resources together to demonstrate our understanding of both the challenges and opportunities we see in project management and we welcome your feedback on these matters.
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On Productivity
There are often numerous interpretations of what productivity is and how it affects the execution of a project. It is useful to cover three ways of productivity improvement that need to be considered during project execution: 1) Doing tasks faster – since some people work faster than others, many people think that productivity improvement means …
On 50 Years of Scheduling
Whether a schedule is built on a computer or held together in bits in pieces in someone’s head, scheduling is a critical business process in the management of projects. Only a schedule tells who will do what and when they will do it. It is solely responsible for making sure that all the tasks are assigned proper …
On Matrix Management
Matrix Organizational structure is very popular amongst firms that work on multiple projects for different customers. This structure provides major potential benefits both in terms of better utilization of staff as well as deepening of the knowledge and experience of their staff through work on multiple projects. Typically a project manager would be assigned to …
On Construction Driven Engineering
In the last decade, a number of very large projects have been undertaken in Alberta, Canada. Their experience has been that although engineering and procurement activities precede the construction activities, it is necessary to make sure that the engineering and procurement activities are prioritized in such a way as to minimize the total duration of …
On Manufacturing
Most manufacturing companies work on numerous production orders that represent either a customer’s actual order or a production order that has been generated from their ERP system or both. Each of these production orders has a start date and a completion date, a sequence of tasks that need to be executed in order to complete …
