Project Management

When a project is considered to be undertaken or not, the decision involves a business case, make or buy decision and analyzing the costs vs benefits. The things that need to get approved before a project is executed are: The work scope, drawings and specifications, the contracts between the buyer and sellers, at a minimum but in almost all cases more items will be needed. Project Life Cycle: The main stages of a project from initiation to completion are as follows: A) Initiation B) Planning C) Execution D) Monitoring & Controlling E) Closing During initiation stage the biggest item for a construction project is to produce the plans and specifications, […] Read More

Let me start by saying that your MS Project version must be 2010 or earlier for this to work. P6 simply didn’t catch up with MS Project 2013 on this yet – as of the end of 2017. I am going to describe the XML importing version although excel import is also possible, as I hear. The first thing you must do is, if you have a MS project 2013 like myself, you must save your file in 2010 or 2007 format. Just to be safe, I did it in 2007 Then convert it to XML IMPORTANT: before saving as XML, you MUST remove all empty rows in your MS […] Read More