Migrating your Project Plan as easy as 1,2,3 It is easy, isn’t it? You’ve been managing your project in one planning tool and you need to migrate it to another. It’s just a matter of finding a mutually compatible format and simply exporting and importing, hardly worth losing sleep over.…
UDFs – The Smiling Assassins Hold the presses, someone’s being critical of User Defined Fields, a cherished and much used feature of Primavera. It can’t be right to call them The Smiling Assassins, can it? Well yes it can, because typically they are not so much “much used” but…
Project Success – Beating the Odds More than half of major projects fail and when those projects fail, it’s rarely technical; the majority of projects fail because of the way they are planned and managed; or rather how they are not planned! Organisations invest in project planning tools and…
Mediation is well established as an alternative means of dispute resolution where an independent and impartial facilitator assists and guides parties towards a mutually acceptable outcome. The great advantage of mediation is that no party can be compelled to agree, but once agreement is reached it is contractually binding and…
Why should it matter who owns the float? “Who owns the float?” is a really important question when a change is introduced into a project. It’s controversial and a quick internet search of that exact question reveals many thousands of attempts to clarify it. It matters when a project…
How good is your project plan? Is your project set to complete on time and within budget? You may believe that you know the answer because you have a schedule that tells you, but are you confident in the schedule itself? Project Pilots can determine the fitness of your schedule…
Richard Robson is delighted to announce that he has successfully completed the Mediator Skills Training programme of the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution and is a CEDR Accredited Mediator. This was a lot of hard work by Richard and investment of resources by Project Pilots but this substantial achievement brings…
