How Well Do You Know Your Professional Network I’d be surprised if many readers are unaware of the concept of Six Degrees of Separation aka Small Worlds Theory, popularised by serious research and less serious, but entertaining, literature, games and game shows. Are you familiar with the theory of Three…
A man is known by the company he keeps! Firstly an apology for the gender bias in the title, those are not my own words; they are a 2500 year old pearl of wisdom. You may be familiar with this sentiment even if you can’t recall the particular Aesop’s Fable…
The Project Companions Challenge If you are confident in the quality of your project plan then why not take the Project Companions challenge? If your schedule scores over 75% against two standard benchmarks (DCMA 14 Point and Fuse Index™) we’ll forgo our processing fee and provide a schedule quality assessment…
Project Companions Project Pilots Ltd are delighted to announce our latest joint venture with FP Opera Ltd. Project Companions brings together the impressive portfolios of FP Opera Ltd (Franco Pittoni) and Project Pilots Ltd (Richard Robson) in order to provide mentoring and advice to help ensure the health of projects…
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…
Migrating your Project Plan as easy as 1,2,3 A new year and a new project planning tool 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…
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…
