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From Striving to Thriving
Published in Kenneth Lee Petrocelly, Project Management: Survival and Success, 2020
The features outlined above are offered by the majority of quality project management applications, it is important to understand that not all applications have all of those features. Selecting which bundle you choose for your project (and organization) will depend on your established requirements, the ease with which the system can be implemented and the acceptability of its cost. Four points to consider when choosing project software are planning abilities for mapping out an entire project from beginning to end, task management capabilities to break down complex projects into manageable work packages, sharing and collaboration functions to make documents and other project-related materials available to team members, and an acceptable pricing option. There are myriad project management software bundles available on the market (from free to pricy), possessing applications of varying ability and focus. I have used several of them during my career but use MS Project as my preferred tool for managing all of my projects’ activities. Microsoft Project is a project management software product (part of the Microsoft Office family) designed to assist a project manager in developing a plan, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing the budget, and analyzing workloads.
Managing Software Costs and Schedules
Published in Marvin Gechman, Project Management of Large Software-Intensive Systems, 2019
Project Management Tools. Microsoft Project is a popular PC-based project management software product. It assists Project Managers in developing a Project Plan, assigning resources to the tasks, tracks progress, manages budgets, and analyzes workloads. In addition, Microsoft Excel is a very powerful spreadsheet developed for Windows, MacOS, Android and iOS platforms. Excel features calculation, graphing tools, and the programming language “Visual Basic for Applications.”
Project management – an overview
Published in Duncan Cartlidge, Construction Project Manager’s Pocket Book, 2020
Microsoft Project (2016) is a project management software program, developed and sold by Microsoft, which is designed to assist a project manager in developing a plan, assigning resources to tasks, tracking progress, managing the budget and analysing workloads. Microsoft Project was the company’s third Microsoft Windows-based application, and within a couple of years of its introduction it became the dominant PC-based project management software.
Developing a schedule integrated automated safety planning tool for residential construction projects
Published in International Journal of Occupational Safety and Ergonomics, 2023
Prasanna Venkatesan Ramani, Talanti Ravi Arun Kumar
An algorithm, as shown in Figure 4, was developed and run in VBA using macro functionality. The algorithm basically searches for the current construction activity of the project schedule in Microsoft Project and then compares it with the construction activity database created in Microsoft Excel. If the current activity matches the construction activity database, then the hazards and safety regulations related to the particular activity are extracted and allocated to the particular activity. After doing this in loop for all of the matching current activities, the risk quantity is allotted for the corresponding activity. The activities are sorted in terms of risk priority, such that high-risk activities are listed on the top and low-risk activities are listed on the bottom.
Developing a multi-criteria index for government projects performance
Published in HBRC Journal, 2020
To implement the index in ongoing projects, one out of five Project Management Offices (PMO) in a large organization was approached. According to the automated Organizational Project Management Information System (PMIS-tailored Microsoft Project Server product) within this organization, 23 running projects were monitored by this PMO. The data of only 14 projects had been approved to access their data. The financial data were captured through another system (Maximo). By applying the established formula to that group of projects, the indexes of these projects (column 12 – Table 4) were calculated and then compared to the traditional reported project status which depended only on the time compliance with the plan (column 2). All calculations and results are shown in Table 4 (project names are kept anonymous).
A simulation-based method for effective workface planning of industrial construction projects
Published in Construction Management and Economics, 2018
Di Hu, Yasser Mohamed, Hosein Taghaddos, Ulrich (Rick) Hermann
The proposed method requires a variety of information from different information sources. The current implementation automatically reads data from a database, constructs and runs the simulation model, and eventually writes the generated schedule back to the database. Figure 5 shows an outline of the implementation used in the sample case. The simulation code also interfaces with other information systems at a database level. For example, material and drawing availability information can be exchanged via a database between a material management system and a simulation database. As-built information is pulled from a progress tracking system so that simulation can start construction activities from the current time instead of from the beginning of the project. Meanwhile, some, of the work packages can be extracted directly from a 3D model of the project, depending on how much information is embedded. Manual input is still required to populate some data tables (e.g. dependency relationships between parent work packages, man-hour requirements of work packages, and time dependent availability limits of resources) that may not be available in existing systems. The system has been implemented using Visual Basic.Net, Simphony.Net 4.0 (AbouRizk and Mohamed 2000), Microsoft Access 2007 as the data base management system, and Microsoft Project 2007 for schedule representation.