The PM Blog

The confluence of data management, wireless technology, internet and demands for transparency by managers and investors has combined to impose an unprecedentedly high set of expectations on project managers. A pipeline project can cost a billion dollars, and incurring costs at the rate of multiple millions a day is routine in such projects. Imagine yourself as a project manager, director, or VP in charge of a pipeline project––you have to be confident that for the $2,000,000 that was incurred yesterday by the construction team, your project earned at least $2,000,000 of value.

This post discusses basic approaches to…  Read more »

From creating a support team to coordinating contractors, to planning and scheduling turnaround work, to managing the work's execution and accurately tracking costs, a turnaround manager has a number of challenges to confront leading up to, during and after a turnaround or similar plant shutdown.

Every maintenance department in every company today must carefully manage its asset-related data. The data involved is crucial to the business. It is obvious that handling this data badly costs businesses untold losses in revenue. A business's long-term viability is often based on the historical data it collects and uses in order to ensure that past mistakes are not repeated or that improvements based on past lessons are reused. In the medium and short-term it is necessary for businesses to rapidly react to new situations. A database of well-developed and maintained solution scenarios could provide a timely and effective…  Read more »