Handling Your Nerves While Doing a Project

project-management-on-your-nurvesStaying calm while handling your projects is the most important thing. There can be a lot of pressure while handling project specially when the deadlines need to be met and resources need to be balanced. Other factors can be the nature, task or inter dependencies. Top management always want it quicker, is it isn’t cheaper and better.

Things are not well versed if the project manager responds to the management pressure by interfering with the team and pressurizing the team, the efforts and skills of the team gets demoralized. The lesson we learn from agile approach is to sit back and let the team do their work. While the pressure prevails. It helps a lot as the team gets confidence what they are capable of and results in a lot more motivation. If this isn’t done the pressure is build up and with tour interruption in pity things wile you lose your focus the team loses their way too. Even the scrum master is there to facilitate. The team gets motivated, the results are great and the projects gets successful, and what you get, satisfaction, a new energy to get things right as well as appreciation and support from the top management.

A wise project manager is guided by the way he feels. The most important of the factor is believing your gut instinct and not to get effected by what is happening around. Staying calm helps you focus and realize what’s going on inside your head and collaborating with your gut instinct. The rest of the team will get on it , pick up the pace and stay centered. The old thought which is practiced by every successful individual. Pause and take time to reflect, the way become clear, and acting the right way becomes easier. Agile project management is all about empowering your team, which is very much in line with the team. When the members of a project work together, there is a inner space created among them, the team then collaborate, grows, work hard, collaborate and make successful projects in that space, while doing this the only thing that matters and what makes it a success is confidence and believe on each other’s skills. A wise project manager always give importance to the silences, silences that prevails within the inner space of the team, which tells a lot about the happenings. It reveals team’s essential mood.

The most primal virtue is to not to take sides or getting involved in any kind of conspiracies. Squabbles are the worst thing that can happen to a team. A correct approach is also very important while resolving the issues or negotiating with people who are not motivated enough.

A leader is persuasive but not dominating, you can make other’s work for you only if they listen to you and not find your behavior dominating or interfering, they never like the project manager to take all the credit for their work, which is ethically wrong too.

PSGINCS

How can you Improve your Organizational Structure(Process Improvement)

When we thing about the term process improvement, the first thing that comes to our mind is improve the overall organizational use. The use of what, yes, precisely, the software the success of your project needs the primavera software. When we talk about the improvement in process, we are talking about the organizational use, its benefits and the rate of the success of primavera software. The abundance in functionality in primavera oracle software unlocking and correctly using these capabilities is the key feature in maintaining the successful implementation. When it comes to consultancy, our consultants have a vast experience in all functional aspects in the oracle primavera oracle suite. The expertise of our consultants is all you need to make your project a success and a big hit in your domain. Our consultants can work through the system of your business process to ensure that the functional capabilities that we provide are leveraged in a cost effective manner and to provide benefit to the user specific to accuracy, time saving, reporting and ease of use.

The expertise covers areas such as:

Demonstration:

The oracle primavera manuals are good but sometimes there is no substitute for seeing the tool in action. Our consultants have demonstrated virtually every component of oracle primavera to audiences. The audience may range from senior managers to technical team members.

Process design:

To achieve an automated workflow that guides users through standard business procedures and processes. Oracle primavera provides the mechanism to send actions to individuals in order to complete the steps which have been identified previously. Escalation and reminder conditions can also be placed into the process in order to prevent bottlenecks. When data changes process can react to the data change allowing steps to be executed in an automated way. This fashion is opted to notify and ultimately rectify. Prescient Solution Group have designed process to aid in the compliance of many requirements (e.g. Sarbanes Oxley) to automate time approvals to facilitate conditional time approvals in order to facilitate conditional time approvals, define risk management processes, and outline project and program creation.

Financial structure maintenance:

When we talk about financial capabilities, they might appear to be complex when it comes to oracle primavera software. The complexity can be in term of settings that need to be made, the classifications that need to define,matrices, bill cycles , charge backs etc. PSGINC consultants can work with your finance department to identify and install the financial attributes required to achieve a streamlined project and the accounting process of that project. The most important point is that our experienced staff can maintain or build a link between your finance systemand oracle primavera to provide transparency into all your portfolio investments.

Security structure:

The security functionality within primavera allow for multiple levels of granularity.

It is further classified into more parts:

Instance based: it defines the part where the user has a specific right to an instance of an object e.g. an individual project.

OBS based : allowing on the organizational structure.

PSGINCS – REVIEWS, PROS AND CONS

PSGINC has always strived for the best forits customers, bringing them the best solutions for their professional related fields.  PSGINC has a reputation for giving excellence to the customer’s product and collaborating with them to get it to the heights of their professional needs.

The reviews and feedback we got in the previous year has been of great honor for us. This compels us to works more for the mutual greater good, which not only grow us as a company, but also make our customers the best choice for people when selecting from the organizations.

The reviews to be mentioned are

“Great company to work for, with paths of advancement for people who are smart and want to work hard. “

The person giving review has been an anonymous employ at PSGINC. He further adds to his talk.

PROS:

“I have always been treated fairly. In my time at prescient group solutions.I can’t say for anyone else. Compensation has been above average.  The company has been getting many clients in the past few years, which have generated a number of opportunities for junior level staff to move up and run their own specific account .The culture is friendly, the atmosphere is good. The staff is supportive as well as getting your back for things on hand.

Seminars are held by the company every week or few weeks to highlight the changing trends of technology. senior level engineers and technological staff has always been a great support and have our backs in times of hardships or if something is not getting the right way whether they are on the same account or not.

CONS:

By the nature of the business, staff is decentralized with most of them being assigned full time to specific client or client sites.  Thismay result in a negative approach, which is limiting the direct interaction with other senior or junior level staff members. Who are not assigned to the same project as you have been assigned to.

The one advice that need to be given as a loyal member of the enterprise is to focus on managerial stuff when it comes to IT team.

Another member added his experience:

He says:

The pros include, IT OUTSOURCING. The main focus is on growth and customer satisfaction and need identifying as long as I h=have been there. The company has stood through tough times with his employees and has made serious efforts to support all the crew with financial and economical allows. The sense of teamwork you get to witness as well as personally practice is not seen in other organizations. Where IT is simply considered as an overhead expense. The enterprise is a growing organization, which gives you opportunity to get a varied skill set and wider experience that can be had at a large organization.

Cons:

The cons include, like in every organization, sometimes the things don’t work out the way they should mostly when it comes to managerial stuff.

PSGINCS.COM – A HOME FOR BEST SOLUTIONS

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We address complex system of system challenges through tools , techniques and knowledge based system thinking while also recognizing that future systems require new thinking in complex domains such as cyber security, health care , data analytics, banking, transportation , government and aerospace.

oracle’s primavera portfolio solution is robust, easy to manage.

it’s key features include:

1. flexible user interface

2. team member interfaces for stating work

3. streamlined enterprise reporting

4. integrated risk management

5. resource management and optimization of views

6. workflow engine to automate business processes

the key benefits include:

1. unite project teams and stakeholders through collaboration and strong feedback methods

2. reduce the risk of costs and schedule overruns

3. optimize management of all resources

4. monitor and visualize project performance vs plans

5. confidently make and keep project commitments.

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT – MATCHING PEOPLE WITH PROJECTS:

Support both top down and bottom up resource request and staffing processes . primavera P6 EPPM makes it a lot easier for projects and resource managers to communicate their requirements and decision throughout a project’s life cycle. By providing a graphical analysis of resource and role utilization . PRIMAVERA P6 EPPM helps project team manages resources in dynamic environments.

This allows managers to see where resources are being used across all programs and projects as well as their forecasted future use . because all information is located is localized and centralized system. resource conflicts become apparent to project and resource managers , eliminating un expected delays and unforeseen resource limitations . in result of this, there is greater visibility into resource demand and capacity means maximized resource use.

BUISNESS VALUE:

Oracle’s primavera P6 ENTERPRISE PORTFOLIO ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT SOLUTION helps organizations complete projects on time and with in budget by enabling them to prioritize plan, manage and evaluate projects, programs and portfolios across the enterprise.

ENSURE PROJECT DELIVERY SUCCESS FOR ALL YOUR PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS:

Primavera P6 EPPM is an integrated portfolio management application that includes role based functionality to match each team members’s needs and responsibilities. It provides executives with a real time view of their

organization’s project performance equips project participants with the right blend of usability , power and flexibility to effectively execute projects and enable workers across all levels of organization to analyze, record and communicate reliable information and make timely decisions.

primavera P6 EPPM can easily scale from a single user on a small project to tens of thousands of users engaged in millions of activities across hundreds of projects . the solution is built on a robust and proven standards based java architecture and is designed to deliver high performance with tight security , flexible integration and real time reporting including the analytics.

PORTFOLIO AND PROGRAM MANAGEMENT – PRIORITIZING PROJECTS AND OPTIMIZING ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY: 

With primavera P6 EPPM project managers can be confident that their projects and programs are aligned with company’s strategic goals and objectives that are in line.

by providing a consistent overview and analysis of the portfolio and program as projects are added and removed , this module enables project managers to manage incoming demand and select just the right balance.

Are Committed Services Successfully Delivered Too?

The services thus delivered are beyond expectations, our main aim to deliver success to our clients. The success depends highly on the frequency on which your partner thinks as well as the benefits he need to gain from the project; need to be same as yours. PSGINCS supports the entire business and technology life cycle. From strategic planning to PMO development, quality assurance, implementation and post production support. When it comes to commitment to success, our commitment to success maximizes the client’s existing skills and automatically lowers your cost of ownership of Oracle Primavera P6.

Project Outsourcing: Pros and Cons

The modern enterprises face tough competitions as well as complex enterprise and management systems thus requiring the efficient delivery and maintenance of resources.

Therefore on one hand they must obtain real time data about project operation, and on the other gain insight into their own competitive advantages.

Know with confidence that you are making informed business decisions that will be a positive blow to your business strategic and productive development. Response time and efficient services are critical to every situation, and they all should go hand in hand for best performance deliveries.

Providing timely and effective delivery of PMO. Planning and coordination of resources are the entire basis on which the success of a project stands.

Alignment between company strategy, execution and results is highly essential to maintain the work flow of project. By serving all vertical markets we tend to assure the best delivery of services and deployment of tools at their best.

Our success is predicated to the integrity of solutions we deliver.

SAAS And Hosting

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This blog covers the essentials of SAAS and it’s need for hosting. Software as a service covers a vast span of software management. SAAS gives you a platform that turns great concepts into software as a service. SAAS hosting delivers the infrastructure and piece of mind that your applications and customers deserve. When it comes to software as a service websites and applications the main keys are the hosting architecture and the support behind it. They play an important role in how your applications perform online. Performance alone can differentiate your app from the existing apps , because your customer online experience determine greatly your product’s success. Whether you are a seasoned SAAS provider or an independent software vendor (ISV) making an important move towards the internet distribution model, down time, latency and non responsive technical support are non- negotiable. They are SAAS killers.

Because some of our largest customers started as small SAAS ventures, we have focused on understanding the architecture and support needs of the industry we work for. Focusing on finding smarter, more reliable and faster method for delivering apps.

But when talking about SAAS hosting by PSGINC, we provide, supply and setup the hardware. You load and configure your speciality, your application. A typical hosted SAAS solution consists of dedicated or virtual servers running your custom application which users access via the web.

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The features and benefits include:

Our fast fibre network: our fully owned 6 data centres, which are fully equipped and 19 points of presence are connected by our 10 gbps network which is monitored relentlessly by experts in out network operations centre. It’s not only smart but it’s fast as well. The most important thing it do is proactively re routing traffic to avoid the latencies, slow loading of pages required and most importantly down time that will eventually plague your competitors application.

Smooth performance scaling: the most important factors are the ability to scale a SAAS environment, which is a key requirement for any SAAS provider. And therefore affecting it’s hosting partner. Our hosting offers a full suite of performance services to make scaling easy and as painless plus unobtrusive as possible form any CAST DNS to global load balancing.

Flexible storage options: with the success of SAAS comes growth, which calls for more complex storage strategies and solutions. We offer various on site, off site and even mixed options. So that you just have to determine your recovery point, recovery time and criticality of your existing data storage and strategy solutions.

Data centre SAAS hosting benefits:

The benefits of hosting SAAS at your data centres has been discussed in this blog, now we will gave a quick review on them.

1. Low start-up costs since we provide the hardware

2. 100 % uptime for Internet connectivity via multiple blended Internet providers

3. Expandable bandwidth, which can be increased as needed.

4. Backup UPS clusters with backup generators for 100 % power guarantee

5. Root access via RDP for windows along with KVM over IP for dedicated environments.

6. On site staff which is available 24-7 , unlike most offices . Someone is always available to touch the server.

RISK ANALYSIS

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In any organisation or while working for a project a very important thing to be kept in mind is taking care of the factors that might affect the outcomes or results or the gaining of profit as a whole. The factor that is helpful in taking care of the factors is known as risk management or risk analysis. At PSGINCS the thing that is kept in mind is following the rules, regulations and processes of primavera P6.  When we are coming towards primavera the most important thing to be kept in mind is that the structured setup that is used by primavera P6. Primavera risk analysis is a full lifecycle of risk analysis which gives analytics solution about integrating cost and schedule risk management primavera risk analysis provides a very comprehensive and detailed means of determining the confidence levels which are included in determining the success, which also involves quick and easy techniques for determining contingency and provision for the upcoming events. And make sure to make the best and quick risk response plans.

You will be able to get an objective view of required contingency or provision to account for cost and schedule any uncertainty that you might face at any point during the whole process of carrying out the project. It also involves analyzing the cost effectiveness of risk response plans. When these combined gives us the firm basis of “risk adjusted schedule”.  Which is becoming a norm or a very common thing within the planning and scheduling process.

A thing that should be kept in mind is every project contains risks. It’s natural; the organizations that plan for the risks and take into account the provisions succeed the most. Anticipating, mitigating and providing response and contingency plans for negative events that may or may not occur. Oracle’s primavera risk analysis software at hand provides the tools for handling all the risk related stuff. Enabling the organizations and companies to model risks and analyze the cost while scheduling impacts of mitigating them. During that process, taking much of the uncertainty out of project and portfolio management. Primavera risk analysis helps project driven organizations ensure the mission critical projects come in on any time. It also makes sure that it is inside the budget.

The main features are:

  • Track and manage the qualitative as well as quantitative project risks
  • Besides the risks it may also contain the impacts and responses.
  • Project risk register integrated with project schedule, costs and costs effectiveness.
  • Comprehensive risk analysis graphics as well as reports
  • Use of Monte Carlo simulation to produce risks a report on which contains probability and confidence levels.
  • Analyzes Primavera P6, primavera P3 , PRIMAVERA sure track as well as Microsoft project site.

The benefits that are gained from this are listed as:

  1. Identify common scheduling pitfalls that may result in misleading scheduling or risk analysis results and outcomes.
  2. Integrated pre developed risk registers plus defining new risk registers that may prove beneficial.

What We Provide

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PSGINCS provides certified project management consulting, training and scheduling jobs for better output in delivering and optimising tasks. It also plays an important role in implementation while delivering the best implementation services. As our tagline tells what we intend to deliver “accelerating time to value”, the words explains it all. We provide consulting and customer engagement services, because the fact that the involvement of the customer results in more accurate and precise performance delivery is a thing that should always be believed and valued. As an Oracle specialised primavera partner, maximising  our delivery to performance is our first priority. As an oracle specialised Primavera P6 partner, PSGINC supports the entire primavera oracle application suite of product ,in addition to providing professional services. We have a team of industry veterans which comprises of consultants, implementation specialists ,solution architects project managers and schedulers which are thought to be recognised leaders in portfolio and project management industry.

Here the question arises, why PSGINC? The answer to this is adding value to your project and how this can be made possible. PSGINC chooses the best  practices whether they  project fits in any of the domains,  ranging from IT to construction, the PSGINC make sure to use the best practices at hand.

The services thus delivered are beyond expectations, our main aim to deliver  success to our clients. PSGINC  understands the importance of selecting the compatible partner for the success of your project. the success depends highly on the frequency on which your partner thinks as well  as the benefits he need to gain from the project, need to be same as yours. PSGINC supports the entire business and technology life cycle. From strategic planning to PMO development, quality assurance , implementation and post production support. when it comes to commitment to success, our commitment to success maximises the client’s existing skills and automatically lowers your cost of ownership of Oracle’s primavera P6.

The modern enterprises face tough competitions as well as complex enterprise and management systems thus requiring the efficient delivery and maintenance of resources.

Therefore on one hand they must  obtain real time data about project operation, and on the other gain insight into their own competitive advantages.

Know with confidence that you are making informed business decisions that will be a positive blow to your business strategic and productive development. Response time and efficient services are critical to every situation , and they all should go hand in hand for best performance deliveries. Providing timely and effective delivery of PMO. Planning and co ordination of resources are all the basis on which the success of a project stands.

Alignment between company strategy, execution and results is highly essential to maintain the work flow of project. By serving all vertical markets we tend to  assure the best delivery of services and deployment of tools at their best.

Our success is predicated to the integrity of solutions  we deliver. We first assess the current situation of your organisation and what you desire to make it in future.

 

PROCESS IMPROVEMENT

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When we think about the term process improvement, the first thing that comes to our mind is improve the overall organizational use. The use of what, yes, precisely, the software the success of your project needs the primavera software. When we talk about the improvement in process, we are talking about the organizational use, its benefits and the rate of the success of primavera software. The abundance in functionality in primavera oracle software unlocking and correctly using these capabilities is the key feature in maintaining the successful implementation. When it comes to consultancy, our consultants have a vast experience in all functional aspects in the oracle primavera oracle suite. The expertise of our consultants is all you need to make your project a success and a big hit in your domain. Our consultants can work through the system of your business process to ensure that the functional capabilities that we provide are leveraged in a cost effective manner and to provide benefit to the user specific to accuracy, time saving, reporting and ease of use.

The expertise covers areas such as:

Demonstration:

The oracle primavera manuals are good but sometimes there is no substitute for seeing the tool in action. Our consultants have demonstrated virtually every component of oracle primavera to audiences. The audience may range from senior managers to technical team members.

Process design:

To achieve an automated workflow that guides users through standard business procedures and processes. Oracle primavera provides the mechanism to send actions to individuals in order to complete the steps, which have been identified previously. Escalation and reminder conditions can also be placed into the process in order to prevent bottlenecks. When data changes process can react to the data change allowing steps to be executed in an automated way. This fashion is opted to notify and ultimately rectify. PSGINC have designed process to aid in the compliance of many requirements (e.g. Sarbanes Oxley) to automate time approvals to facilitate conditional time approvals in order to facilitate conditional time approvals, define risk management processes, and outline project and program creation.

Financial structure maintenance:

When we talk about financial capabilities, they might appear to be complex when it comes to oracle primavera software. The complexity can be in term of settings that need to be made, the classifications that need to define, matrices, bill cycles , charge backs etc. PSGINC consultants can work with your finance department to identify and install the financial attributes required to achieve a streamlined project and the accounting process of that project. The most important point is that our experienced staff can maintain or build a link between your finance system and oracle primavera to provide transparency into all your portfolio investments.

Security structure:

The security functionality within primavera allow for multiple levels of granularity.

It is further classified into more parts:

Instance based: it defines the part where the user has a specific right to an instance of an object e.g. an individual project.

OBS based: allowing on the organizational structure.

NEW FEATURES IN PRIMAVERA P6 PROFESSIONAL PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT VERSION 15.1

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Primavera p6 has always promised its customers to deliver the best. Solutions that is tangible to the problem as well delivering the value to your business. Primavera P6 has introduced latest features for its customers. The version is 15.1. This version enhances the skills to bring out the best from your project.

The important features in the content are:

  1. Usability
  2. Import and export  baselines of projects  in XML format
  3. Enterprise features when connected to an EPPM database
  4. Separate module excess for P6 professional and visualizer
  5. UN/ CEFACT improvements
  6. Unifier integration
  7. Visualizer
  8. Import and export visualizer layouts

New usability feature include:

1.              Import and export baselines of projects in XML format

2.              Enterprise features when connected to an EPPM database

3.              Separate module excess for P6 professional and visualizer

Import and export baseline of project in XML format:

The ability to include baselines when importing or exporting a project in primavera XML format has been added to the new version 1.1. Previously you needed to restore a baseline to a project in order to import or export it. In P6 professional 15.1 baseline information is included in the XML file.

A new field, exists, is included in the baselines to import dialogue box. The purpose is to notify you if an imported baseline already exists in the project being updated.

To access this feature:

On the file menu, click import or export.

Enterprise features when connected to an EPPM database:

Several features have been re enabled in P6 professional version 15.1 when connected to an EPPM database. In previous versions, these features were disabled with the expectation that they would be administered in the p6 application.

The following features have been re enabled in P6 professional when connected to an EPPM database

  • EPS
  • OBS
  • PROJECT CODES
  • ACTIVITY STEP TEMPLATES
  • COST ACCOUNTS
  • FUNDING RESOURCES

These features continue to be available for P6 professional instances that are connected to professional databases or installed in standalone mode.

Separate module access for P6 professional and visualizer:

A new module, visualizer, has been added to the module access section of the user access page in this new version 15.1. The difference is that in previous versions, access to visualizer was included with the P6 professional module access. This new features enables project managers to allow separate access to both the applications. This is useful if for example , a user tasked with creating Gantt chart or time scaled logic diagram reports in visualizer might not require        access to P6 professional. Conversely some users may be given p6 professional access but not the privilege to work in visualizer.

To access this feature:

Open p6 professional or visualizer. Access will vary depending upon the module privileges granted in p6 web.

UN/CEFACT IMPROVEMENTS:

This new version of p6 provides additional support for UN/CEFACT XML format 6, which defines and contains integrated master schedule (IMS) data. The existing UN/CEFACT XML support has been enhanced to support all the fields in the D09b version of the XML schema.

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