INDUSTRY UPDATES

Delve into the latest insights on Major Defence Projects by State Map with an exclusive excerpt from Kinexus's Defence Industry Insights 10th Edition.

Dive into the latest report detailing the Lessons Learned from the collaborative efforts of the Department for Transport (DfT) and Transport for London (TfL) on the Crossrail project

The prestigious Project Control Expo Awards, known for recognising excellence in project controls, are gearing up to celebrate another year of groundbreaking achievements.

Project management during the pandemic was challenging for some organisations, especially as remote work was required without prior planning, leading to changes in working patterns and considering new methods for completing projects.

 

In P6 Version 20 and earlier users could not see the time when setting a date when the User Preferences were set not to show the time. Often when setting an Actual Start of Finish date, Suspend or Resume date, constraints dates etc. P6 would pick an irrelevant time such as midnight. This is because P6 does not have the feature of Default Start time or Default Finish time found in other products like Microsoft Project.

The aim of this paper is to explain the main functional changes that users will see in the Oracle Primavera P6 PPM V21.12 added since the release of P6 PPM V20.12.

Last year, ARES PRISM encouraged their members to participate in a short survey on how sustainability was impacting the project management industry. They are pleased to announce that the formal industry report is now available for download.

The aim of this paper is to explain how the P6 Duration Typeand the options set in the User Preferences, Calculations, Resource Assignmentstab affect the resource assignment process and task resource calculations. These options are useful to understand so when you change the duration of an activity you know if the crew size will remain the same or the work assigned to an activity will remain the same.

Covid has completely transformed the way we work in the last two years. It has altered the way we complete projects and prompted us to explore new ways to deliver tasks. However, for some organisations managing projects in the times of a pandemic was a real challenge, especially if your organisation was required to try out remote work without any preplanning.

The latest Australia and New Zealand market insight report from Turner & Townsend finds that construction activity across Australia has continued to grow over Q4 2021, driven by a surge in housing and infrastructure projects.