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Planning Makes the World Go Round

By: Jaclyn Sharma on 6/4/21 16:47

Imagine a world where planning, whether it be for professional or personal events, didn't exist. Schedules would be non-existent, key life events would be missed, there would be ...
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Project Controls in Heaven

By: Mark McKenzie on 10/1/19 12:00

Having alignment between engineering deliverables, the construction estimate, the project master schedule and the job cost system, I think most of us would agree, sounds like ...
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Setting Up Your Work Breakdown Structure with Cost Codes

Best practices dictate defining the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) early in the project life cycle. Doing so will enable alignment with the engineering work packages, the ...
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What is Pull Planning?

By: Mark McKenzie on 8/12/19 8:00

The term pull planning is being used more and more in construction planning and scheduling. Where did the term originate from? What does it mean exactly? What does pull planning ...
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The Importance of Constraints Removal

In construction scheduling, constraints are anything that prevent a task from being completed. These often cause a project to fall behind schedule and run over budget. It is ...
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The Repercussions of Poor Constraints Removal Processes

Constraints are defined as anything that hinders progress toward the end goal of a work package—in other words, anything that stops or slows your field workers from doing their ...
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