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Project Controls Tips & Tutorials

Informative tips & tutorials that discuss Project Controls & Project Management for the Construction, Engineering and Oil & Gas industries.

Project Control Managers Guide
Guides | Project Controls Tips & Tutorials | Project Management

4 Steps To Get Your Team Up And Running With Primavera P6

February 28, 2015July 7, 2025

Are you about to roll out Primavera P6 to a large number of users? Getting Primavera P6 up and running…

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Interview Questions For Hiring A Project Controller
Construction | Project Controls Tips & Tutorials

11 Killer Interview Questions For Hiring A Project Controller

February 13, 2015July 7, 2025

Hiring for any position is always risky business. There are no guarantees once the interview is over that the winning…

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Overview Of Construction Submittals
Construction | Project Controls Tips & Tutorials

A Basic Overview Of Construction Submittals

January 28, 2015August 23, 2019

Strolled into your office today to a desk buried under a stack of reports? Chances are they’re Construction submittals –…

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Project Scheduling Tools
Project Controls Tips & Tutorials | Software & Tech

3 Up-and-Coming Project Scheduling Tools You May Not Know About

January 24, 2015July 7, 2025

Last week’s Construction CPM Conference in San Diego was a big success! It was my first time attending (and presenting…

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Killer LinkedIn Profile for Project Controls
Project Controls Tips & Tutorials

8 Steps Project Controls Professionals Must Take for a Killer LinkedIn Profile

November 18, 2014July 23, 2019

For years, LinkedIn was the ugly stepchild of Facebook … a little more professional, a little harder to use, a…

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inspire motivate project story
Project Controls Tips & Tutorials

How to Motivate and Inspire Others with Your Project Story

October 17, 2014August 23, 2019

I want to hear your story. I want to hear about how your schedule was a nightmare from the start…

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cringe-worthy schedule p6 guide
Guides | Project Controls Tips & Tutorials

A Go-To Guide to Building a Cringe-Worthy Primavera P6 Schedule

September 8, 2014October 17, 2019

The meeting had gone well. I was going to win some business and they were going to get complete Primavera…

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Interview Skills
Project Controls Tips & Tutorials | Project Management

6 Interview Must-Dos To Nail That Project Controls Job

July 28, 2014July 7, 2025

So you’ve spent a few weeks filling out applications and making phone calls, and finally, the moment you’ve been waiting…

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definition of an s-curve
Primavera P6 Tutorials | Project Controls Tips & Tutorials

What in the World is an S-Curve? [In under 100 words]

June 4, 2014August 1, 2024

An S-curve is a graph of the expenditure of project resources over time. Typical S-curves graph either costs or resource…

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hard constraints vs soft contraints
Primavera P6 Tutorials | Project Controls Tips & Tutorials

Understand Hard Constraints vs Soft Constraints [in under 100 words]

May 7, 2014August 1, 2024

Primavera P6 supports 2 types of constraints; hard constraints and soft constraints. In Primavera P6, “Mandatory” constraints are hard constraints….

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integrated cost and schedule Primavera P6
Project Controls Tips & Tutorials | Software & Tech

4 Reasons Users Might Refuse to Use Your Integrated Primavera P6 System

April 30, 2014October 9, 2019

I remember a gift I bought my parents once – a motorized corkscrew that promised to make opening a bottle…

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primavera p6 calendars tutorial
Primavera P6 Tutorials | Project Controls Tips & Tutorials | Project Management | Software & Tech

5 Things You Should Know About Primavera P6 Calendars

January 28, 2014August 1, 2024

Primavera P6 has a pretty smart scheduling engine built-in, but it’s not quite smart enough to know what time to…

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7 Ways to Grow Your Project Management Smarts
Construction | Project Controls Tips & Tutorials | Project Management

7 Ways to Grow Your Project Management Smarts

November 5, 2013July 7, 2025

  Nov 7th is the 9th annual International Project Management Day. International Project Management Day is a day to be…

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Primavera P6 Visualizer
Project Controls Tips & Tutorials

What is Primavera P6 Visualizer?

April 30, 2013October 9, 2019

The new version of Primavera P6, r8.3, has been released recently, and one of the new features is a stand-alone…

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20 Must-See TED talks for Planning Professionals
Project Controls Tips & Tutorials | Project Management

20 Must-See TED talks for Planning Professionals

February 28, 2013July 7, 2025

TED.com is one of our favourite sources for inspiration and awe. If you’ve never visited TED.com or watched some of the…

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