Project Managers do some of the heavy-lifting to lighten the project controls team workload.
Weekly updating of OPEX and CAPEX projects in an Operational Plant
Written by Nicole Jardin
Client Overview
When you are working in an operational plant with daily maintenance, small upgrade projects and major expansion capital projects all going on at once, it is critical to manage schedule inter-dependencies and potential impacts so that nothing goes off the rails.
Challenges
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Reporting weekly progress and monthly costs to date on over 50-100 projects
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Reviewing inter-dependencies, schedule impacts, and coordinating crews with area holds
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Balancing the project controls teams' overtime each week and at the end of the month
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Ensuring interproject critical path analysis was done
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Getting updates from remote engineering firms in different time zones
Results
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With CAPPS, weekly status updates were done by the project managers and submitted to the project controls team for approval in P6
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Monthly cost updates and forecasting of EAC were done by the project managers and submitted to the project controls team for approval in P6
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Key management milestone reporting was streamlined significantly
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Project controls teams were freed up to deal with larger turnaround projects
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Project controls teams were able to focus on P6 re-scheduling and critical path analysis
on Friday, 30 April 2021.
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Introducing CAPPS Version 10.0
Release brings user controls and layouts to the tool
Introducing CAPPS Version 10.0
Release brings user controls and layouts to the tool
New Features
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On-Screen - Layout Saving
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On-Screen - Column Controls
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On-Screen - Filtering Controls
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On-Screen - Sorting Controls
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On-Screen - Tab Controls
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Configurable - P6 Columns for Baselines, Total Float
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Configurable - Columns to Include UDFs and Codes
on Tuesday, 27 April 2021.
CAPPS was used on large infrastructure projects to help with timely updates.
weekly updates with costs and resources
Written by Nicole Jardin
Client Overview
Running large infrastructure projects that are highly time sensitive requires easy updating of P6 project schedules. This is not easy to do when you have highly specialized suppliers and contractors scattered around North America.
Challenges
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Timely updates from multiple specialty engineering, suppliers and contractors
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Weekly status reporting including costs to date and estimate at completion
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Updating resource usage and forecasting on a weekly basis from over 15 specialty suppliers
Results
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CAPPS was deployed to key project managers and suppliers
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Weekly updates were prepared and reviewed in meetings prior to submission to keep the communication flowing smoothly
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Used percent complete, resource usage and cost to date
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Reporting improvement and better forecasting was achieved
on Thursday, 29 April 2021.
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Remote PMs get updates in on time with CAPPS
Remote Project Managers get updates in on time
Written by Nicole Jardin
Client Overview
When managing a multi-million, country-wide building upgrade and retrofit program with over 150 project managers, getting timely updates is very challenging.
Challenges
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Getting bi-weekly status updates from 150 remote project managers was taking over a week to accomplish
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Capturing monthly costs in a timely manner to get the program reporting reviewed and validated without major overtime for the project controls team
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Ensuring consistent updating of key milestones and schedule slippage analysis
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Getting all PMs to take responsibility for the updates and the timelines and understanding inter-project dependency impacts
Results
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P6-Loader was used to clean up project templates for some 500 projects in play to acquire consistency
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CAPPS is used for weekly updates by over 150 PMs
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The project controls teams review and approve all updates in P6 and discuss any anomalies with the PMs right away
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CAPPS is allowing meeting updates to run more efficiently with the on-screen grid
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Program management reporting is now being done with a lot less stress and overtime
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P6-Calculator allows for flagging of variances and easy filtering of late and overdue items for the schedulers to find across hundreds of projects
on Tuesday, 27 April 2021.
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Latest release makes updating and approving easy
Latest release makes updating and approving easy
New Features
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On-Screen - Approvals
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On-Screen - Rejections
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On-Screen - feedback status data
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Configurable - Pre-Filtering for users
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Configurable - database interactions
Enhancements
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Performance improvements for extracting and loading into CAPPS
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Support for Chrome Browser
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Support for IE 10 Browser
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Technology changes and enhancements
on Tuesday, 04 February 2020.