{"id":7656,"date":"2014-10-17t10:07:02","date_gmt":"2014-10-17t14:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.deco-dalles.com\/?p=7656"},"modified":"2019-08-23t16:21:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23t20:21:54","slug":"motivate-inspire-others-project-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.deco-dalles.com\/motivate-inspire-others-project-story\/","title":{"rendered":"how to motivate and inspire others with your project story"},"content":{"rendered":"
i want to hear your story.<\/p>\n
i want to hear about how your schedule was a nightmare from the start – but you pulled through in the end; about how this one trick saved your butt in a crunch or even about how things went completely wrong and you would never do that again.<\/p>\n
these are stories we all want to hear.<\/p>\n
we want to hear your story about project controls, primavera p6<\/a>, your team’s unique project and what you accomplished.<\/p>\n last year i played a part in organizing\u00a0collaborate14<\/strong>, where i and others were inspired by presentations from primavera users<\/strong>;\u00a0users who were willing to stand up and share their experiences with primavera – the good, the bad and the ugly.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ivan rincon’s<\/span> excellent presentation on implementing an integrated primavera p6 eppm<\/a> at bc ferries<\/a>.\u00a0ivan told bc ferries’ story from an organizational standpoint, discussing challenges with training, user adoption, having proper technical skills in-house as well as technology challenges.<\/p>\n it was not your typical “here’s how mapped this field to that field in p6<\/em>” sort of talk. (here’s a link to ivan’s presentation<\/a> and his whitepaper<\/a> on the opsig website.)<\/p>\n ivan discussed how the organization had to adapt to enterprise project management, and how people reacted to these changes. the kind of invaluable “how we toughed it out” information i heard about you will not find in any oracle brochures or white papers.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n trevor watt<\/span> of epcm solutions sort of blew me away with “30% \/ 60% \/ 90% ifc engineering: what is the project progress?<\/strong>” (link to presentation<\/a>).<\/p>\n he showed us\u00a0how ifc engineering project schedules are usually built at a fairly high-level<\/span> in p3 or p6. this high-level approach didn’t allow him to accurately progress his activities using rules of credit<\/span>.<\/p>\n his solution?<\/p>\n ditch the high-level schedule and go for a detailed schedule that allowed him to increase his progress accuracy by a factor of 10.<\/p>\n and he used just about every primavera p6 feature to build and track his schedule – resource curves<\/a>, leveling, financial periods, global changes…. he used them all.<\/p>\n why bother with the detail?<\/p>\n his words “the bottom line is what ever happens during the<\/strong> engineering phase, can affect construction two fold<\/strong>.” smart stuff.\u00a0his audience was impressed and had a flurry of questions for him afterwards.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n as an organizer for next year’s collaborate15 conference, i’m on a mission to find more\u00a0inspiring and motivating user stories. technical presentations are great and really helpful. but a successful user conference relies on users to get involved.<\/p>\n i’m on a mission to find more\u00a0inspiring and motivating user stories.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n the\u00a0call for papers<\/a>\u00a0for collaborate15<\/strong> is open, but only until oct 31st.<\/strong>\u00a0get going and\u00a0submit an abstract<\/a>….it only takes a few minutes.<\/p>\n the conference will be in las vegas<\/strong> in april 12-16, 2015<\/strong> at mandelay bay, a great venue. if you do submit and are selected to speak, conference attendance fees are waived (for 1 speaker)….yes, you can attend for free!<\/strong><\/p>\n if you aren’t able to speak or don’t feel the pull despite my nudging, then consider attending and block out april 12-16 in your calendar. i’ll see you there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" i want to hear your story. i want to hear about how your schedule was a nightmare from the start…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[193],"tags":[],"content-topics":[],"class_list":["post-7656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-project-controls-tips-tutorials"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nsome inspiring\u00a0talks i attended at collaborate14:<\/h3>\n
collaborate15 call for presentations – open until oct 31st<\/h3>\n