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All the talk about Q/A Q/C plans becomes rather insignificant when you have set an offshore rig in the wrong place because in a time-crunch someone inverted a number and his dislexia was no better when he "self checked" his computaions. There should be an "automatic" way to failsafe our...

I am extending this dialog to the more general Project Management forum. Thank you for your valuable assistance.

Thanks for the cogent advice re: management of project resource time. The advise to break the project down into more milestones with more detail from the middle onwards is insightful. I still have the problem of presenting the economics of determining the value of the Work in Progress that has...

Do you have a design Status Report that you are proud of? How do you estimate the percentage of completion? I am involved in compiling Work in Progress Status reports. Work in progress in this case is percentage of the design project(milestone)work product that has been completed, i.e., the...

Now we are getting close to one another's perception. The accounting department gathers and produces payroll information. The PM produces estimates and statistics of percentages of milestone completions. In order to communicate the condition of the project the two have to use a common tool...

The problem in a midsized design firm is that the leader estimates are usually very rough unless the work can be tracked by deliverable units, say sheets or survey miles. Time is generally lost while various skills/disciplines wait on one another. There is always too much or not enough work...

Suggestions are great. I am looking for actual experiences and the historical results/dificulties. The question comes down to this: the more detail that is included, the longer the delay before reports can be issued and acted upon. This is particularly true in accounting. Has anyone found an...

We are a medium size civil design firm with project fees running from $5000 to $500,000. We would like to use MS Project to manage our own work i.e. monitor effort and cost of work in progress (WIP) on a weekly basis. This could turn into a burdensom job in MS Project for small projects, yet...