The PM Blog

Using the cloud to store data and deliver applications is a compelling business model for companies that are trying to reduce costs and be more efficient with their data. Sure, it means less work, which means that Big IT’s empire shrinks a bit—but it costs a lot to run that empire.

The use of an integrated project management solution that can handle a variety of different project types and complexities is an effective way to ensure that projects will not be left with a need for armies of staff to maintain complex spreadsheets and schedules. Instead the integrated system would enable fewer people to leverage their data non-redundantly and faster than is possible with the prevailing approach today.

IT managers, plant managers, department managers and members of maintenance, engineering and operations teams may know the five general requirements for plant-wide asset and work management, including maintenance (routine, preventive, predictive and turnaround) and capital projects. TeamWork provides a way to streamline each of these.

Too often, on the scheduling "island," schedulers see their mission as to simply produce a schedule on a bi-weekly or monthly basis. They are simply auditors of the project execution; they are not integrated into the actual execution process.

But when field personnel use the schedule to help them deploy their resources and to report progress, the schedule is doing its work for the project. Ideally, field input is incorporated into the plan and the schedule that is derived from the plan. In real terms, this means that the plan and the schedule are owned by all of…  Read more »

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Managing a project or a turnaround involves far more than can be done in Primavera's P6 or MS project alone. They can be a part of the solution; however, it's the management of the rest of the spreadsheet and databases that is the primary problem that TeamWork 2k resolves. The sheer number of people that are used to manage projects and turnarounds today can be reduced, and those that remain can have a significantly better work product by using TeamWork 2k.