Project Management News
Proforma’s Scott Arnold Quoted on Guyana in recent Rigzone article
Check out our very own Scott Arnold quoted in Rigzone regarding the emerging oil and gas market in Guyana. The Rigzone article reads, "One of the top offshore oil and gas success stories reported in the past year has been a string of major Exxon Mobil Corp.-led...
Engineering and Project Management Trends for 2018
The engineering and project management sectors both look to experience several distinct trends over the course of the coming year. Many of these trends stem from certain processes and technologies that began to appear over the past five years, but are...
Tips and Tricks for Effective Progress Reports
Ensuring progress reports are effective and informative is essential at all stages of a project. Not only does it foster enhanced communication and awareness of the status of a project, but it allows for increased or renewed focus on both current and potential...
From Design to Delivery: Ways to keep your project on time
As every project management staff knows, all projects are subject to numerous bottlenecks and constraints that can sap time and resources. Even with adequate planning and preparation, the unexpected can—and most likely will—happen, thereby adding further pressures on...
Emerging Trends in Engineering
Being able to identify and proactively participate in emerging trends in any business is a vital component for continued success and this is certainly the situation in reference to the field of Engineering. While each subset of Engineering will contain different...
Top 5 Ways to Improve Cost Control on Your Next Project
As with any project, cost controls are essential in ensuring that the appropriate time and resources are applied to the project and any potential for waste is reduced. However, often cost controls are applied without regard to the overall impact these can have on...
Stress Concentration Factor: Why It’s Important the Health of Your Project
In engineering terms, the stress concentration factor is a localized area or concentration of undistributed force - for those involved in project management, there isn't much of a difference. The stress concentration factor in project management is an aspect of the...
Top Tools for Project Management
Trying to set goals, maintain communication, schedule meetings and more can be a daunting challenge if you're using traditional email. Emails do not always reach the right people at the right time, or they can get caught in spam filters...and of course they may be...
Change Control and How It Affects the Health of Your Project
From budget to time and scope, changes in a project are almost inevitable. Regardless of the size of a project, having effective change control in place can make a significant difference in the health of your project. Change requires efficient management in order to...
Project Management vs. Change Management – How Each Affects Your Business
While exhibiting similarities; project management and change management are two different areas, each with different skill sets and requirements. It is true that both have the same strategic goal in the company - producing results for the company and stakeholders. It...
