Not Bad for a 2-Hour Meeting!

Not Bad for a 2-Hour Meeting!

ROI of a 2-Hour Meeting Imagine what your leadership would say if you told them you could achieve 16% cost savings and 15% schedule savings on your next project, just by holding a 2 hour meeting? I just read a nice article from McKinsey on how chemical companies can...
Al Capone, an LRT and a Corduroy Road

Al Capone, an LRT and a Corduroy Road

Anytime you start to dig, there are risks that you might discover something that will delay a project. Today as I exited our office to take an afternoon walk I was reminded of how important an assessment of site conditions is during front end planning. While you can...

Maximizing the benefits of PDRI

Carve for PDRI: The evolution of PDRI Over the past 20-years, many many companies have experienced massive benefits of using PDRI to improve scope definition. As project management processes have matured at companies using PDRI, the supporting tools for PDRI evolved...

How to align O&M Teams and Project Teams

When it comes to mixing O&M teams and capital project teams how can you promote goal alignment and performance focus? In industrial facilities, small capital projects (under $10M) are largely undertaken to address compliance requirements (health, safety or...