Times have changed and the past few years have been tough for all industries. One result is that we’ve seen a gradual realisation of how good project management can help companies more widely than just within the project office. Better intelligence about what is going on can enable better decisions, full stop. The fundamentals of project management such as time and resource management have far wider benefits to project-centric firms than they had realised, especially in helping them to drive down costs and do more with fewer resources. Embracing time and resource management makes absolute sense to them.

As the economic squeeze continues, all organisations seek to reduce their costs, do more with less and streamline to face a tough market. Resources of all kinds are squeezed, including people. Yet they often haven’t traditionally employed project management methodologies, and can fail to recognise the vital role that time and resource management plays.

We believe it’s time to wake up and face facts. If a company is looking to drive down its resource costs or improve productivity it needs first to create and then sustain visibility and understanding of how its resources are managed and deployed. You cannot manage what you cannot see. You cannot measure and then improve on things you do not track. Remaining in ignorance of what is happening at this fundamental level of your company and its operations is simply not an option any more. Download the full white paper here.

This two day, highly interactive, Practical Management of Construction Delay and Disruption course is essential for those engaged regularly in matters of project delay and disruption. The course is presented by a range of experts in this field and has been constructed to provide course delegates with a ‘toolkit’ such that they may practically consider both proactive and reactive measures back in their own work environment.

This course has been constructed to provide delegates with practical ‘hands-on’ sessions to consider the implementation of the theories and techniques presented.

Click here for more information and to book your place.

Turning off a Filter or Sort

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When a Filter or Sort is running, the name of it will be shown in the status line at the bottom of your screen.

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To turn the active filter off you can go to the View tab and select Filter – No Filter.

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Alternatively, you can left click on the Filter name in the status line and this will also turn the Filter off.

Find and Replace

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This feature will allow you to search bar and task names, the notes field, a WBS code or other identifiers containing an alphanumeric string.

To use this feature, go to the Home tab

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and then the Editing section on the right hand side.

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Select the Find and Replace button

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The Find and Replace dialogue box will appear.

Insert the word or number you wish to find and select Find Next.

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The bar line where the word is located will be highlighted. You can then replace the word if required.

Ammend the Properties of a Project

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If you want to change the project name, start date or progress method, select the File tab then select the Advanced Properties button in the right hand window

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Amend as required and select Close

Kevin Balaam, Area 6 Programme Manager in the Atkins Highways & Transportation business said: “We selected Asta Powerproject as it helps us to manage the many road projects required most effectively. The combination of it being an easy to use tool, together with the high quality reports it produces makes it ideal to support  our requirements. The multi-user application is extremely useful as it allows different members of the project team to access the most up-to-date data at the same time.”

Duncan Gibb, Head of SCIRT says: ‘The use of Asta Powerproject  is going to be critical in the success of the rebuild. We were attracted by its ability to allow us to easily create project schedules and for us to have a one-stop view of what is going on and report this to our stakeholders and the residents of Christchurch.’ Read full article here.