Category Archive

Progress Measurement System

02 Sep

Plan Progress Calculation in MS Project

There are still many projects and companies utilizing Microsoft Project (MSP) to run their major projects. When utilized, one of the common ...

29 Mar

What is the S-Curve Data Source?

An S-Curve is one of the most well-known and widely used reports on projects. It acts as a road map of project execution. Despite its popu ...

24 Mar

Everybody is Responsible for Progress!

Schedule update and progress report (as accurate as possible) is one of the key responsibilities of the Project Control & Planning team. T ...

07 Dec

How Important is Progress Report?

Discussions around progress reports and weight values never cease to exist. On almost every occasion, there will be another aspect (right ...

02 Dec

Cost Value, Weight Value and Activities

Preparation of progress reports and schedule update is one of the routine works of the project planners. The accuracy of the reports and ...

15 Nov

Importance of the Weight Value

Sometimes during discussions on Weight Value, most people immediately jump to the conclusion that Man-Hours, Cost, etc. must be used. On ...

12 Nov

Man-Hour / Cost Role in Progress Measurement System

We measure Construction progress in man-hour! Man-hour is more accurate in calculating progress! We don’t care about the cost because we ...

03 Nov

A Weird Way for Weight Value Calculation

Most often, when discussions are held regarding weight value and basis for calculations, man-hours and cost comes to the project control ...

23 Oct

How to Monitor Engineering Progress?

Revisions and reworks of drawings are unavoidable as part of Engineering. As a result, progress measurement and reporting must be able ...

13 Oct

Weight Value – Mixture of M-H and Cost

Reference to our post about Weight value and Earned value, there were comments as regards using the mixture of M-H and cost for Engin ...

07 Oct

S-Curve, Duration, Physical% Complete

Most of the requests that we receive to review a project’s Planning system are initiated by Project Managers. This usually happens afteR ...