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May2024
How to secure project schedule “buy-in”.
To effectively engage a resistant superintendent, foreman, or other team member when trying to build a project schedule is a feat not to be taken lightly. So often, I have heard people say “What’s the point it’s going to change anyway” or “You can’t plan for everything that’s just too much”. Many people in the construction field think the project schedule is just a colorful piece of paper, never realizing the powerful tool they have available to them if they would just be willing to use it. Schedules are a living document that changes with…
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Jul2023
OPC Baselines and Time Travel
Before we get into OPC Baselines and Time travel, Oracle Primavera Cloud (OPC) is the newest Project Management solution offered by Oracle. While the OPC Scheduling suite and Primavera P6 are very similar in functionality, OPC has introduced several additional features that will give project managers powerful tools not previously at their disposal. We at CBA, Inc. are really excited about OPC and over the coming months we invite you to join us as we dive into many of the new features that we think make it a solution worth looking at. For our first…
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Dec2020
When to Upgrade your P6 EPPM installation
Determining when to upgrade your Primavera Installation may be tricky. This article will attempt to help in this decision process to ensure your team is on the leading edge, but not necessarily the bleeding edge of Primavera. The goal of this article is not to provide a set timeline or cycle of how often an upgrade should occur as the title implies, but instead the goal is to help provide guidelines on how you can best determine that for your environment. First, off let us define what we mean when we say “upgrade”. For this…
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May2020
CBA provides meals for the Manor at Perrysburg
Critical Business Analysis, Inc. (CBA), a leading provider of project management related software, training, staffing, and services and proponent of local senior care providers,is giving back to the community with a donation of 50+ meals from Stella’s Restaurant and Bar to The Manor at Perrysburg.
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Dec2019
Importing Searchable Legacy Documents and Drawings into PMWeb
On October 29th, 2012 Superstorm Sandy hit the Passaic Valley Sewerage Commission facility in New Jersey causing a complete plant shutdown for the first time in the facilities’ 108-year history. In the aftermath, a ten-year, $2 billion program was initiated to upgrade and build new wastewater treatment facilities. The challenge of building new and upgrading existing facilities, increasing capacity, meeting increased regulatory requirements and improving the resiliency of the plant to avoid Superstorm Sandy level damage was daunting. The project demanded a solution for the management of records for hundreds of projects and hundreds of…
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Feb2018
Using Fill Down in Primavera P6 – video
This short video shows how to save time scheduling your projects by using the “Fill Down” feature in Primavera P6. Watch the video and add this shortcut to your routine to become a more effective scheduler.
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Jan2018
The Benefits of BIM
CBA Subject Matter Expert on BIM, Cynthia Stiffler, President of VDC Services for Rock Ridge Virtual Design Construction, describes the different maturity levels of BIM, through the concepts of 4D, 5D and 6D scheduling, which are used to indicate the elements and benefits of
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