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PUG2009 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Pierre Khawand
Founder & CEO, People-OnTheGo
Accomplishing More with Less: 5 Productivity Principles for the Digital Age
Join us in making the workplace less hectic and interruption driven, more satisfying and results driven instead. We work and live in an era of interruptions. The very moment you begin a task, you are stopped by emails, IM’s, colleague visits, phone calls, meetings, and now, tweets and Facebook updates. The very technologies that were invented to enhance productivity have made it nearly impossible. Not only this, we are bombarded by an unprecedented information overload dominated by the Internet and globalization. This puts unreasonable demands on our work and personal lives, and as a result, we suffer, feel helpless, and our accomplishments decline. This needs to stop!
Pierre Khawand, Founder & CEO of People-OnTheGo, the creator of the “Accomplishing-more-with-less framework”, and resulting workshops and teleclasses, is revealing some of the most compelling productivity principles and setting the stage for this movement. You need to be part of this revolutionary and imperative effort!
This applies to everyone working in today’s information overload, especially to those managing important projects and leading key initiatives.
Pierre Khawand has more than fifteen years of experience in the software industry. He has led several technology ventures and completed successful mergers and acquisitions. He founded People-OnTheGo in 2001 to enable business professionals
to communicate and collaborate more effectively using leading edge technologies.
His best selling “Accomplishing more in less time, less effort, and less stress” workshop enables managers and executives to better cope with information overload and competing priorities. Pierre is the author of two popular blogs (less-is-more.typepad.com and 81dayexperiment.typepad.com). He has recently published the Smartphone Experiment book—how to select your smartphone in 5 easy steps. Pierre holds a Master’s degree in Engineering from the University of Michigan and has completed several Executive Education programs at the Stanford Graduate School of Management. |
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Anglo Platinum
Yolanda Wagenaar, Capital Project Cost Management
Cost Management vs Financial Management When Ddefining your Work Breakdown Structure
The information shared will help the following role players understand the impact and importance of the WBS structure and what elements & persons are required when defining your WBS structure to maximize Asset definition, Control, Flexibility and Simplicity.
Total Project Team, Finance Department, Treasury & Asset Managers |
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ARES Corporation
Mary E. Kurts, Advanced LIGO Project - Deputy Project Manager
Successfully Implementing Project Controls in an Academic Environment
Academics have a different view of the world from Project Controls professionals. This presentation will highlight the challenges experienced in trying to bring EVMS methods to an educational institution. Selection of a project controls software package is only one of the key elements to successfully implement cost and schedule control. Integration with existing financial systems and cultivating a culture change are much more time consuming. |
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August-Gram Consulting
Dr. Carol W. Carlson, Ph.D, President & Principal Agent
Decision Analysis Evaluation of Project Management Software Performance
The urgency to adapt to shifting economic conditions presses firms to make rapid decisions that likely result in costly mistakes. Software tools that integrate well with existing systems and still provide unique functions such as earned value management (EVM) reporting are abundant and the evaluation of their performance is a difficult task. A premium guide to selecting business tools, particularly software suites, is provided by decision analysis of those tools. Dr. Carlson explores and contrasts competing project management software tools including PRISM Management Suite and grades their performance. Decsion makers at all levels will benefit from attending this unique presentation. |
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Dulles Transit Partners, LLC
Jim W. Short, Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project - Deputy Project Director - Services
Implementing Successful Control of Projects
Selection of a project controls software package is only one of the three key elements to successfully implement cost and schedule control of projects. This presentation will highlight successes experienced and tools/tips learned over ten years of using PRISM Project Manager and will also discuss the other key success factors – People and Processes. Having the correct personnel appropriately empowered, trained and motivated with a set of guiding principles is essential to project success. Additionally, defined processes with clear roles and responsibilities are also necessary to successfully implement a project controls program in an organization. |
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Hatch Mott MacDonald
Harry W. Jarnagan, PE CCE, Hatch Mott MacDonald
Lessons Learned in Using Earned Value Systems, (A Case Study)
This presentation provides a summary of lessons learned related to the implementation and use of PRISM Project Manager the Earned Value Management System (EVMS) now in place on the Alaskan Way Viaduct and Seawall Replacement Program (AWVSRP) being delivered in Seattle, Washington, by the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). The material discussed is taken from a report prepared by Hatch Mott MacDonald (under contract to WSDOT to provide Program Management services) and submitted to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). At the time the report was written, this program was in its design phase, the lessons learned that will be discussed will concern EVMS in support of engineering. |
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Intergraph Process, Power & Marine
Charles Gill, Executive Business Manager
Integrating Construction Work Package Progress with Project Controls
Construction projects in today’s market have become more complex. Information from multiple systems and departments or contractors needs to be effectively coordinated and managed to execute construction projects in the most efficient manner. This is particularly true with most projects now running parallel with engineering and purchasing activities – both of which are operating in a dynamic environment. With industry consulting reports showing up to 1/3 of the construction day on a project wasted on labor standing by waiting on information or equipment to complete their jobs, Project Controls professionals need every advantage they can get to help capture, monitor and report project progress and productivity.
Intergraph’s newest addition to the SmartPlant family of products, SmartPlant Construction, integrates all necessary information from the required systems (design, information and materials management, project controls) to develop precise and flexible work packages to better manage labor and materials at the work site. By integrating this with PRISM Project Manager, as the work packages are being completed, progress is being captured at the individual work steps and then reported back to be incorporated into the Control Accounts. This helps both home office and field cost engineers capture data in order to generate progress and productivity reports based on the status of construction activities. The overarching goal of tying PRISM with SmartPlant Construction and other SmartPlant Enterprise solutions is to provide an integrated information management platform necessary to keep all project personnel actively engaged in advancing the project – saving time and money while increasing productivity. |
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Parsons Corporation
Robin Corona, Cost Engineering Manager
Romi Puckett, Project Controls Manager
SALTBase—Parsons’ Powerful and Practical Companion to ARES PRISM
While Parsons Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) project had its EVMS “certified” a year ago, the project has not merely maintained the status quo related to their use of PRISM. Instead, they have developed a web-enabled “companion” that gives upper management, functional area managers (FAMs), and CAMs a tool to manage their control accounts and work packages at a more detailed level. Called “SALTBase,” this presentation will provide a working demonstration of how it interfaces with PRISM to improve the way the integrated software platform is currently being utilized in support of this highly visible Department of Energy (DOE) project. |
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Sandwell Engineering Inc.
Dan F. Grigg, P. Eng., Project Controls Manager
Implementation and Use of PRISM Project Manager (PPM) on Large Capital Projects
Sandwell (an Ausenco group company) utilizes Prism Project Manager (PPM) as its solution for capital cost management on EPCM projects. The implementation of PPM on a large capital project ($USD 1 billion) will be presented. On large projects, the establishment of baseline budgets can be challenging due to the volume of estimate data involved (potentially > 10,000+ line items). The advantages of using of the Baseline Estimate Module for conditioning of estimate details and the creation of control accounts will be discussed. Sandwell’s approach to coding structures, central to any cost management system, for Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Control Accounts and Group codes will be highlighted. Data flows from proprietary Procurement, Change Management and Financial Systems and treatment of different cost types will be described. Forecasting and Earned Value Management issues will also be addressed. |
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URS
Corrine Taylor
Implementation of PRISM Project Manager Engineering Module at URS Washington Division
URS started the implementation of PRISM Project Manager in 2007. In March 2009, two projects implemented the Engineering Progress Module (EPM) as a means to plan, track progress and performance, and forecast man hours of engineering activities to directly update the Control Accounts in the Cost & Progress module. Carefully planning the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and drawing document identification has proven to be a crucial part of the Engineering Management System (EMS) implementation. PRISM allowed the flexibility for URS to incorporate company standards in the definition of the WBS and to define document IDs. The strategy used by URS to achieve this critical step will be discussed. |
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Westinghouse Electric Company
Darryl Brown, Westinghouse Performance and Cost Control Lead
Use of PRISM on the Westinghouse AP1000 Nuclear Plant Projects
Westinghouse Electric Company provides fuel, services, technology, plant design, and equipment for the commercial nuclear electric power industry. Westinghouse nuclear technology will help provide future generations with safe, clean and reliable electricity. Westinghouse and its Consortium partners have sold AP1000 Nuclear Power Plants to several electric utilities. Each project is a multi-billion dollar contract that requires a significant project controls effort to ensure on time and on budget delivery.
Westinghouse implemented PRISM to assist with that effort and will discuss how the Cost and Progress, Baseline Estimate, and Schedule modules were used to track our progress in the development of the AP1000 technology as well as in the delivery of multiple plants to our customers. Our internal customers sometimes request different data from the same projects and control accounts. User defined fields allow us to keep multiple data sources of time phased data within a project. We are also able to use cost elements to segregate base costs from escalated costs by keeping the escalation as a separate cost element.
Also discussed will be how PRISM is used to combine our resource loaded/statused schedule (from Primavera 6.1) with our financial data (from SAP) and procurement status from other databases.
This presentation will be of interest to project managers and project control engineers. |
