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Chelsea asked me a couple weeks ago to write a blog piece on the different construction software lines we offer and support at Cassell Consulting. At first I resisted, thinking it was important to separate “church and state”, that is, keeping our blog set distinctly apart from any sales topics. That said, I agree that it’s in our cleintele’s best …
Read MoreFive Predictions for 2012
– Five predictions for 2012: 1. The construction economy will improve by 10% from 2011. 2. Tablet computers will replace laptops in construction field offices 3. BIM software will continue its growth 4. The stock market will hit a new historical high 5. President Obama will be reelected. 1. Call me Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farms, or blame my irrepressible optimism, …
Read MoreReconcile Bi-Directional Currency Conversions in US Cost
While training NAVFAC cost engineers in Japan last month I ran into an interseting scenario with Currency Conversions in US Cost. Some of the items (primarily local materials) were priced in Yen, while others imported from RS Means were in dollars. I envisioned merging multiple estimates after first converting all the items in the “Dollars to Yen” estimate to Yen, …
Read MoreP6 Activity Won’t Schedule On Time
P6 Activity Won’t Schedule On Time We received a call at 4pm on Friday afternoon (the obligatory Friday Afternoon Construction Emergency) concerning a scheduling issue: in spite of all attempts, a 10 day P6 activity with only 2 days remaining was showing a disconnected duration, a gap of 2 months between its Actual Progress and its Finish date. Worse, important …
Read MoreHow to Find and Recover a Lost Estimate in Timberline
Another recent call we received on the same trip to Alaska was from a distraught estimator in Hawaii. It seems that he had spent five hours on an estimate the night before, and when his ssession crashed at the end of it, the estimate seemed to have evaporated with it. He looked manually where he was sure he’d saved it, …
Read MoreHow to Update Closed Financial Periods in p6
Following training we provided in Anchorage recently, a senior scheduler pulled me aside with a perplexing P6 problem. He had inherited the schedule for a hospital in northern Alaska that had been originally assembled by a cast of now-long-goners. By and large the schedule was reasonably solid, but some quirky behavior somewhere in its structure revealed itself every couple months, …
Read MoreP6 Activity Code issue and fix
We took a call recently from a geographically-diverse company’s project manager who was having problems building a new P6 schedule for an Army Corps of Engineers project. He’d been working for hours on it and was getting nowhere. Try as he might, when attempting to assign his Project Activity Codes to items, they were nowhere to be found, despite being …
Read MoreMid-Summer Update
This summer has been uncharacteristically busy, a good thing. Our 5-year strategic plan dictates that we expand our consulting services and resources, and we’re doing that now. Some of those changes: We’re pleased to add Rob Mazoros to our consulting team. Ron has extensive IT experience, including networking, custom programming and report writing. Additionally Ron is trained in Hard Dollar …
Read MoreP6 Recipe for Trouble (and how to avoid it)
We received this interesting email through our Oracle | Primavera Business Partner network at Stenstrom Group: “Increasingly, customers are calling into Oracle Support with Data consistency issues. It has come to our attention in the Channel that partners are training customers to use P6 in the following way: We found that customers are opening P6 in multiple browser tabs and …
Read MoreHow to Gain Job site Productivity in Two Words
Manage Better! (duh) I am an ENR-junkie, a habit I strongly advise for anyone interested in the construction industry. This morning’s articles included a thoughtful one on productivity in construction. Its title? “Don’t Blame the Workers.” It’s a standard office water cooler topic that those lazy s.o.b.’s out on the job site screwed up someone’s (allegedly excellent) estimate through laziness, …
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