This is my favorite episode so far, it was very inspiring and insightful!

#900 ✌🏻 Good luck fellas on building this channel. Great stuff! Just got your book and anxious to dive in!!!

This was awesome tuning in!! Thank you guys for putting out great work for people to hear and know about.

I was glad to hear the PCL manager talking about WBS. The host made a comment about developing the schedule “on the wall” and avoiding that. That is a key part of the training - understanding float and how it’s calculated. Let’s not promote the key punching as much as we do. Knowing how to read plans, creating relationships, job site visits, and “learning” the soft skills (communication, mining for data, etc) needs to be part of training and development. I’ve never let someone go because they didn’t know how to push the buttons. They were unsuccessful because they didn’t know how to build - or worse - didn’t want to know how.

Thanks for your good episode, thanks for Diane

Very informative, Brady! Love this collaborative effort.

Thank you guys. This episode was really informative.

Great subject, Thank you! I love the dashboard! I have a question though, was this project cost loaded in p6 and then you import it in Power BI?

Hi Micah & Greg, I absolutely loved the discussion-it was so insightful that I didn’t even realize when the video ended. Just wow! Truly amazing. Please keep creating more content like this! 😊 I had a thought-perhaps in scenarios like this, sharing a brief agenda with the client beforehand could be beneficial. Also, since we touched on reporting, presenting sample one-page dashboards with key KPIs could make a positive first impression on the client. Building on those samples, this could serve as an excellent follow-up opportunity for the next meeting, where we could showcase dashboard previews and relevant KPIs such as SPI/CPI, time-to-go-live metrics, estimated cash outflows for funding arrangements, key issues, risks and their estimated impact on KPIs, and decision points prioritized based on what’s critical or near-critical. Just some thoughts-I’d love to hear your views!

Thank you, I am quite passionate about project controls and i am looking to transition, thanks for the informative podcast. You have gained a subscriber and Chirag was a really good guest.

Appreciate the feedback. Will try to figure out what normal subtitles are. And there's no one who works here named Jesus.

Why reinvent subtitles? jesus. Just use normal ones.

Amazing guys. I have 21 years experience in Planning (oil and gas industry) and i'm looking for how to use AI for scheduling and the topic "AI in Construction" was essential for me. Here in Brazil we are still in our infancy in terms of AI planning. MS Project and Priamvera P6 still reign supreme.

Great video, excellent discussion and smart key takeaways and next steps! Thanks to you both!

Can agree this is one of the best dashboard I’ve seen so far! What is the best place guys to catch up on to learn more about how to set up data and pull it over to BI?

Thank you!

Spot on Gentlemen! Decomplexification, another testimony to Greg’s Britishness! If I could change one thing about P6 it would be the network diagram. I still struggle with presenting it to people on large projects. Do you know any application that could help?

I enjoyed your video.Have been trying to make a transition into construction as a scheduler/planner but still finding it hard here in Uk.I have the knowledge of using P6 to schedule and i want to believe am 80% of myself.Uk experience is my limitation so far.I wish someone like you could walk me through the difficult path.

Very useful! My favorite metrics are Percent Complete and SPI. I believe the weight factors in the Percent Complete metric should be tailored to the project. These can be either dollar-based or duration-based, and I’ve even seen projects that used a combination of both. I’ve also developed a metric to identify unbalanced bids and monitor contractors’ profit margins throughout the project. Since profit margin is a key motivator for contractors, we want to ensure their motivation remains consistent over time. Please let me know if this sounds interesting, and I’d be happy to send you the paper. P.S.: The title and topic of your book seem fascinating! I just ordered it.

Thanks for this great and helpful topic.🙏🏻

What an educative video you got there. I was glued to my screen till the end and i have also purchased your book from Amazon. Keep up the good works. Cheers.

Guys, I really appreciate you taking the time to put this together. Tough topic and you both managed it with appropriate thoughtfulness and sensitivity. These are the sorts of conversations that remain relevant in project controls, but are too few and too rarely. Nice!

Awesome

Micah, thanks for posting those 250k jobs :D

Tuning as much as I can trying to get my foot in the door as a planner/scheduler! It’s a bit difficult to understand with the audio it tends to static or cut off every time Greg speaks Love the podcast! 🎉

Nice to find something like that on KZbin. A 22-year scheduler here. Definitely a lot of valid points. I don't think there is a catch all for a happier scheduler life, but, one of the things that kept coming in ny way was, how to articulate to the team what you feel like they need to ask for, imho this is one of the biggest pain points

very high level..... words, fancy research language..... not very useful. Doesn't focus on any example related to building a dc.

Says nothing .. wow amazing

Thank you for this great video

I totally agree with you on the implementation period and resources needed being decision making criterion while comparing them to the business case goals. We faced this challenge when implementing Holo Builder which was dropped after one project due to limited resources and untapped goals that could not extend its usage to other projects.

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Very insightful and thank you for the realistic analysis and explanation of a complex predictability problem. Certainly taking the 5 key elements with me

Hi Greg n Micah, been listening to you both for several months now. Great podcast with practical strategies, insights and interesting topics. Looking forward to more of your content in 2024.