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The first time I used a Pareto chart example in a quality review was at a contract electronics manufacturer in the West Midlands — power supply assemblies, warranty returns, probably 2018 or early 2019. The quality team had been chasing eight different … Read more
Most teams get through the first three 5S methodology steps without much difficulty. Sort, Set in Order, Shine — these are physical activities. You can see the progress. You can photograph the before and after. You can show the results to management. … Read more
I’ve seen quality managers spend three days investigating a common cause variation signal — ringing suppliers, pulling batch records, convening a review — and find nothing, because there was nothing to find. The variation was random. It was doing what random variation … Read more
A cost benefit analysis in project management is supposed to be a neutral tool. Put the expected costs on one side, the expected benefits on the other, and let the numbers tell you whether an investment is worth making. The problem … Read more
I’ve sat through a few CCPM training sessions over the years, and they all have the same shape: compelling theory, impressive case studies from manufacturing plants in the 1990s, and a largely optimistic view of how organisations respond to being … Read more
Most schedulers today work in PDM without ever needing to think about the arrow diagramming method. Primavera P6, Microsoft Project, Asta Powerproject — all of them use Activity on Node logic. But this arrow diagramming method example guide covers why ADM still matters: … Read more
The difference between total float versus free float matters more in practice than most scheduling guides suggest. A contractor I worked with on a motorway maintenance programme — it was an NEC3 contract, roughly £8m, around 140 activities in the P6 schedule … Read more
A cost benefit analysis puts the expected costs of a decision next to the expected benefits and asks whether the second column is bigger than the first. Project approvals, capital investment, hiring, infrastructure — it shows up everywhere. This article works through … Read more
Enter a predecessor in any scheduling tool and you’re applying the precedence diagramming method. Most schedulers do this with finish-to-start for every dependency — which works for the majority of relationships but misrepresents the rest. I’ve reviewed programmes where the … Read more
Cost classification is one of those topics that seems obvious until you’re sitting in front of a budget and trying to decide whether the project manager’s time is direct or indirect. Or whether the site welfare facilities on a construction … Read more
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