Computer Applications in Project Management

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Computer Applications in Project Management

• Mamoun Besaiso
• March 28, 2005

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Lecturer
M S Construction Management, USA Scheduler,
350 million project, USA
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• Arizona State University , USA
• Instructor
• Researcher
• Trainer
• Hunt Construction Group, USA
• Stadium Project ( 350 million Project)
• Railway Headquarter (75 million)
• Development Alternatives, Inc., USA
• Construction Sector Manager, Gaza

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Cardinals Stadium Project
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• Project Management Institute (PMI)
• PMBOK
• Scheduling Standard

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Outline

• Management Levels
• Microsoft Products
• Primavera Products
• Meridian Systems
• Estimating Bidding
• Web-based Project Management

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Management Level
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Planning Scheduling Software

• Microsoft Project
• Primavera Project Planner
• Sure Trak
• ABT Project Workbench
• Project Scheduler 7
• Power Project
• Milestones
• others

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Microsoft Project
Easy GUI Cheap
Standard
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PMI Survey March 2000

• Microsoft Project is the
• most widely used
• project management tool available today.

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Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management
(EPM)
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Primavera Products

• Engineering Construction
• Information Technology
• Maintenance
• New Product Development
• Professional Services

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Engineering Construction

• Since 1983, Primavera Systems, Inc. has helped
  the engineering and construction industries
  deliver more than 4.5 trillion worth of projects
  to date. ENR has ranked Primavera as the
  most-used project management software in the
  industry. The reason for this is trust.

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Primavera Productsfor Engineering Construction

• SureTrack
• Primavera Project Planner
• Primavera Engineering Construction
• Expedition
• Primavera Contractor
• Prime Contract

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Primavera Project Planner(P3)

• P3 is the recognized standard for high-end,
  high-performance scheduling and resource control.
• Multi-project, multi-user project and resource
  planning and scheduling
• - Manage multiple projects in a multi-user
  environment.
• - Control large and complex projects efficiently.
• - Connect to your corporation worldwide.

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Control resources and costson a daily basis
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Project control and communication

• Communicate via e-mail.
• Multi-user capabilities.
• Integration with corporate systems.
• Analyze alternatives. (What-if Analysis)
• Over 150 predefined tabular and matrix reports
  and graphics
• Custom report writer included

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Integration
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• Unlimited project groups, projects and target
  plans
• Up to 100,000 activities per project
• Multiproject resource and task relationship
  control
• Scheduling and resource leveling, manually or
  automatically, at the project group and/project
  level
• 20-level WBS
• 24 user-definable activity codes for selection
  and sorting
• 10 project codes
• Intelligent activity ID codes
• 16 user-definable custom data items
• Summarization of multiple project groups
• Store period performance
• What-if analysis
• Earned value analysis
• Merge multiple projects

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SureTrak Project Manager

• Resource planning and control for small-to-medium
  sized projects

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• Primavera Engineering Construction
• P3e/c for Construction

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Primavera Engineering Construction P3e/c for
Construction
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Management
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Owner/Contractor
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Reporting
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Cost Management
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Mobile
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• Primavera Expedition

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Primavera ExpeditionComplete multi-project
controls and contract management
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PrimeContract
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PrimeContractProject collaboration and
construction process automationPrimeContract is
a leading on-line project collaboration
application the reduces cycle-times of any
engineering and construction business process
from pre-project planning to facility start-up.
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• Focus on contractor
• Claim Digger

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• IT projects

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IT Project Management

• IT Office Primavera TeamPlay
• IT operations Management (Evolve)

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Meridian Systems

• Proliance
• Prolog Manager
• Prolog Website
• Prolog Pocket
• Project Talk

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• Prolog Manager provides complete project control
  by automating all aspects of the construction
  lifecyclefrom project design to close out

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• Executive Dashboard
• Cost Control
• Procurement
• Document Management
• Field Administration

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Estimating Bidding

• Timberline
• MC2
• Bid2Win

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Web-based Project Management

• E-project
• Hard dollar
• E-Project
• Citadon

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• Thank you