Transcript Project Information vs. Project Control

Erik Danielsson
Product Responsible - Proteus
Quantum Solutions AS
+47 97 06 85 42
[email protected]
15 minutes – April 15, 2010
Quote from a philosophical farmer friend:
“It is funny that there’s no way to manufacture nutrition from carbon,
phosphor, nitrogen, and a bunch of other atomic substances…
They have to take the path thru the carrot in order to become nutrition!”
..or paraphrased:
“Nutrition can only exist if
substances gets transformed
through a plant”
Nutrition
Control
“Project control can only exist if project data gets transformed through
the human consciousness”
In order to optimize the conditions for
project control - we have to optimize the
interfaces between project data and the
human consciousness...!
It also requires an optimal degree of
flexibility to adapt to ever changing project
needs (internal and external)…!
We are going to look into 3 specific areas where project control may be
improved, and give some pointers and examples of how this may be
achieved…
NOTE: This is not intended to be a sales presentation, but is a summary of
the presenter’s observations after 12 years of working with project
organizations …
For practical reasons, all screenshots are taken from Proteus, but if you
know of any other software system(s) that has the same (or better!)
functionality in any of these areas – please use it!
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10 jobs
100 Docs
1000 cables
 Network software embedded
in ERP Ocean.
 Each Network activity relates
to ~10 n ERP objects
 Minor Network changes have
major ripples in ERP ocean.
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10 jobs
Network
100 Docs
Software
1000 cables
By the way:
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There are 10 types of people in
the world: Those who understand
binary - and those who don’t…
10 jobs
100 Docs
1000 cables
Excel
Safran, or Primavera
10 jobs
IFS, SAP, Mips
100 Docs
PDMS, or similar
1000 pipes
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10 jobs
100 Docs
1000 pipes
Progress bar is green if 100%
Bar is red if > 10 000 hours
Show expected Range
if Behind Schedule
Blue box indicates child-range (min - max).
The more negative the number, the
more attention it should get:
Score = Hours * Delta% / 100
Hatch=Outside parent range!
This bar is more “yellow”, indicating it has
more hours. Transparency controlled by
hours – compare with topmost bar!

Visualize material and
design hold on jobs (in
6 week work-schedule).

MC and CP overviews

LCI (Life cycle
information)

Progress overview for
any type of
planning/production
data.

Piping / PipeSupport
status from PDMS data
(3D-Model).
Format X
f(x)
Format Y
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