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Part #137: 3D WBS lecture at Swiss Project Management association, remenbrances
I did a lecture about 3D WBS method the 9 September 2014 at Lausanne in Swiss. It was very nice.Cubix360...Functional needs of Project Management...Before the lecture...
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Part #136: Overall project structuration in a multidimensional way
Sometimes the goal of the project is to finish the project as earliest as possible, sometimes it is to finish it with the lowest cost, sometimes it is to obtain the best Product with a high quality and...
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Part #135: The foundation is the standard…
If you take a piano, well for example between C and D there are 1.5 tone, and between E and F there is a semitone. that's the standard. Now if you take your hand and you put it on the piano keys so...
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Part #134: And the Costing?
Costing is usually calculated by Products. In fact, there is also the Activity which is usually “Construction”. It is a macro level activity; sometimes we do not name it because it is obvious that we...
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Part #133: Why to identify the interfaces?
3D WBS method is the only method that allows to identify the interfaces of a project.The three elementary tree structures of the WBS are projected on the axis of the WBS cube, and then, after the...
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Part #132: how to define the relationships in WBS matrix?
We know how to define the tasks and the durations efficiently simply by crossing the elementary tree structures Products (PBS), Activities (ABS) and Zones (ZBS) in interfaces matrix. We can use the WBS...
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Part #131: 3D V lifecycle of a building construction project
Below the 3D V lifecycle of a building construction project.As you can see, there are always 3 dimensions for the Work (ABS, PBS, ZBS) and we can add the fourth dimension OBS to describe the whole...
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I created with myAMS Cubix360 software that is the only software that apply 3D WBS method. It allows to build quickly and well, and with method, MS PROJECT or PRIMAVERA P6 schedules.To buy Cubix360,...
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Part #129: Another view of the 3D WBS
For one Product line, the crossing between ABS and PBS is standard. For two projects of the same Product line, the changes are the Zones.In the picture below, ABS and PBS tree structures are projected...
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Part #128: Consulting in Project Control
Do you need: To create standards WBS for your company? To Plan your project well and quickly? To create a cash-flow curve related to schedule? To Manage both costs and time together? To Identify...
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Part #128: Another view of the WBS
The task is the last element of the WBS, it is at the crossing between ZBS, PBS and ABS; knowing that we can take the level of our choice on all the three tree structures to produce a Task.
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Part #128: Project control consulting and training
Do you need:to create standards WBS in your company?to do a schedule quicky and well?to do the cash-flow curve linked to the schedule?to manage both time and cost together?To identify the interfaces of...
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Part #127:The Value Breakdown Structure (VBS): Features & Benefits
The value solves the question WHY of the 3D WBS modeling...Copyright 2014: Stephen A. Devaux, Analytic Project ManagementEvery project and program is an investment, undertaken to generate benefits that...
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Part #126: Conference 3D WBS at the SMP
In september 2014, I will do a conference at the Swiss Project Management Association (SMP). Sorry, it will be in French...
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Part #125: Project cube synoptic
It looks like that...We find the WBS: ZBS, PBS and ABS. And also "For what" which belongs to the scope items too.And we find Project Value dimensions: why, who, how much and when.
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Part #124: 3D WBS process of projects structuration
When you structure a project with 3D WBS method, you have to solve the following questions, in this order:Thanks to Stephen A. Devaux for his help, last book "Managing projects as investments":...
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Part #123: Thoughts of Doctor Paul D. GIAMMALVO
The trend is clearly towards MULTI-DIMENSIONAL WBS structures. (Relational Database vs Flat File)I believe one of the world's leading authorities on multiple WBS structures is Jean Yves Moine. Take the...
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Part #122: Thoughts of Xavier LEYNAUD
When I work on the concept that Jean-Yves develops long time ago, it was specially because I was “fed up” with the hierarchical approach that imply most of the WBS, and the fight about its...
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Part #121: Project break down as fractals !
In fractal method, the basic structure repeats, not only at the macro level (the universe for instance) but also at micro and micro micro levels as well. For a project it is the same, the star...
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Part #120: Star tetrahedron projects !
As Garrett Lisi’s theory of everything, 8 dimensions can be envisaged for a project.In blue, the SCOPE dimensions of the 3D WBS : PBS (what?), ABS (How?), ZBS (Where?), and configuration management...
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