Stephen Blank is chief executive officer of Loman Control Systems Inc. Driving from New York to Los Angeles, you have a couple of options. One option is to just drive west until you get to the Pacific ...

From a project manager’s perspective, a strong plan is vital to maintain communication with stakeholders across all levels of an organization. While communication may seem to be a fairly light lift in ...

With nearly two decades of retail management and project management experience, Brett Day can simplify complex traditional and Agile project management philosophies and methodologies and can explain ...

The amount of effort spent scheduling the work on today’s construction projects is staggering. In addition to critical-path method schedules, contractors use sketches, Visio graphics, Excel sheets and ...

All electrical projects start with a schedule or, at the very least, some basic milestone dates. Meeting these dates is the simple, strategic goal of any project. Keeping the project on that schedule ...

Although often used interchangeably, the terms "project planning" and "project scheduling" are two entirely different pieces of the structure of the task. Each plays a role in getting a project to ...

From financial dashboards to factory-based assembly, utilities and their contractors are deploying new tools and processes to improve project cost performance. In decades past, the decision to pursue ...

Because risk is a part of any project, an important role of the project manager is to identify and control it. Without any control, risks can become disasters, causing delay, unnecessary expenses and ...

Every job has a schedule. Some schedules are formal, some are informal, some schedules are pulled out of the air, but all jobs have a day on which they start and a day they finish. In between are a ...

Sadly, it demonstrated the difference between well-run and well-conceived: It was supposed to be a project status meeting, ...