Integrating project costs and schedules is a goal for anyone wanting to truly understand where the project should be, and needs to be, in terms of progress, hours consumed and money spent. Difficulties with aligning work and cost breakdown structures, differences between cost loaded schedules and project budgets, and disconnected scheduling and cost control teams […]
Project Estimating Across the Budget Lifecycle with EcoSys
December 10th, 2020
Estimating is persistent throughout the project delivery process. The creation of high level, rough order of magnitude estimates supports ideation and project selection. Detailed estimates support project budgets and scope changes identified during execution. In many cases estimates are developed at different stages of the budget lifecycle using different tools and procedures. This is due […]
Project Data Integration Maturity Breeds Success
November 13th, 2020
Project data integration and project performance management have been likely bedfellows for many years. I have been involved in many system implementations as a user, implementor and consultant in the past 20 years and the only one I can clearly remember failing was the one where integration was kept to minimum. The need for an […]