planning and scheduling

The Lost Art of Scheduling

Asset Management System (AMS) Implementation

AMS implementations are usually quite involved. Software is installed and configured, processes are documented and improved, and roles and responsibilities are clarified. The project team will identify as-is and to-be processes. More importantly, the project manager must facilitate these workshops, coordinate resources and communicate change. With so much at stake, why aren't AMS project managers making full use of the project management tools, such as scheduling software?

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Preventing Birthdays in Backlog Management

Maintenance is about mitigating the consequences of failure (the risks). Managing the Maintenance Backlog is no different, it too is about managing risk. Instead of looking at backlog only in

Tip Provided by: Jeff Shiver, CMRP, CPMM, CRL, RCM2 Practitioner Managing Principal

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The Right Resources: Start Designing a Planning & Scheduling Program

If you need to implement a new planning and scheduling program, you’re probably discovering that the task can be rather daunting. You need the right resources, the right organizational support, the right data, the right business practices, the right amount of time, the right change management approach, and the list goes on. This high level generic stuff may seem like implementing planning and scheduling just isn’t within your grasp. But there are ways to achieve an environment that will support a planning and scheduling program that works with what you already have in place and takes into account what your team is able to manage throughout implementation and beyond. If you take a closer look at what you already have, putting the final touches on a successful planning and scheduling program may not really be that big a beast to tackle.

Cost of Change, and Why Planning Matters

For most products (other than software-only products), any change from the original intent during development costs money (and extends schedule), and the cost of any particular change (along with the time impact caused by the change) increases with time . This increase in cost and schedule may not intuitively obvious, and as such may obfuscate the real reason that proper product development planning is so critical to the success of the product development.

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Steps to Audit and Benchmark your Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Culture

Many organizations either have the need for or have implemented the role of the Maintenance Planner Scheduler. This is an important role in proactive maintenance cultures and properly utilized,

...Jeff Shiver, CMRP,CRL, CPMM, RCM2 Practitioner Managing PrincipalPeople and Processes, Inc.

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