Cost Planning & Cost Management
Cost estimation Schedules dictate recourses requirements and expenditures on one hand side and conversely constraints on resources and working capital dictate schedules. How to deal successfully with this conflict? First estimating, budgeting and controlling costs are...
Time scheduling
Time scheduling is one of the fundamental tasks of project planning. Realistic time schedules are the key to success of project implementation. But time planning simply faces one problem. It must describe the future with all uncertainties, based on the knowledge of...
Early Contractor Involvement (ECI)
Large and complex construction projects, in comparison to standard state of the art projects, involve a wide spread pool of human and technically resources. Usually on the client side the preparatory process is time and cost consuming and many times at an early stage...
PM Masters
Who to Follow in Project Management These 18 project management professionals, in particular, have established themselves as thought leaders and influencers. Together they provide a great body of knowledge to those seeking to become project managers, and working...
Project Management is a mobile thing
Let’s face it, if you work as a project manager you are probably on the move most of your time. You need to be in meetings with customers or your team, visit the project or catch up with the project’s sponsor. In my view, there are only two types of projects: those...
Design Thinking in Project Management
What does it mean to design a project? I am not talking about designing of the actual deliverable such as the building or software, but about the project itself. Everything that ‘shapes’ the project, such as the project’s environment, required skillset, culture or...
Prommpt Entstehung
In einem Artikel im VBI Magazin hat Anton Angermeier über die Entstehung von Prommpt berichtet.Ein Link zum Artikel- Download findet sich am Ende dieses Posts.Erfahrungen beim Projekt-Monitoring für ein großes Infrastrukturprogramm im Norden von Mozambique gaben den...
Wirtschaftsschäden durch unzureichendes Projektmanagement
Die Summe, die innerhalb des Wirtschaftsraums der Europäischen Union in Projekte investiert wird, beträgt mehrere Billionen Euro. Die Schäden, die durch unzureichendes Projektmanagement verursacht werden, summieren sich auf einen dreistelligen Milliardenbetrag. „Das...
Consolidated monitoring in Mozambique
The Government of Mozambique and the Millennium Challenge Corporation on behalf of the United States of America had signed an agreement for implementing an infrastructure program comprising of the three infrastructure components roads, water supply and sanitation....