Comments on: Are You Missing This Critical Piece Of Your Project? http://pmstudent.com/missing-project-planning-data/ Helping new and aspiring project managers reach their career goals! Sun, 20 May 2012 01:38:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Dr. Paul D. Giammalvo http://pmstudent.com/missing-project-planning-data/#comment-12658 Dr. Paul D. Giammalvo Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:37:37 +0000 http://pmstudent.com/?p=3496#comment-12658 Another perspective through the eyes of the contractor. If you even HOPE to be able to get paid for the changes, you need to document the hell out of them. Even when there is no question on either side that the change order was a legitimate one, I have yet to see the owner who didn't try to negotiate the actual cost down, even if it had been agreed to in advance. The story an old timer told me has always stuck with me. The reason that you pay a prostitute in advance is the value of her services diminishes significantly after she has rendered them, and remains so... Until you need her services again........ So the wise contractor gets the owners agreement up front BEFORE the work starts otherwise risks a testy battle to get paid after the work is done... Good night from Jakarta.... BR, Dr. PDG, Jakarta http://www.getpmcertified.com Another perspective through the eyes of the contractor. If you even HOPE to be able to get paid for the changes, you need to document the hell out of them. Even when there is no question on either side that the change order was a legitimate one, I have yet to see the owner who didn’t try to negotiate the actual cost down, even if it had been agreed to in advance.

The story an old timer told me has always stuck with me. The reason that you pay a prostitute in advance is the value of her services diminishes significantly after she has rendered them, and remains so… Until you need her services again……..

So the wise contractor gets the owners agreement up front BEFORE the work starts otherwise risks a testy battle to get paid after the work is done…

Good night from Jakarta….

BR,
Dr. PDG, Jakarta
http://www.getpmcertified.com

]]> By: Dr. Paul D. Giammalvo http://pmstudent.com/missing-project-planning-data/#comment-25251 Dr. Paul D. Giammalvo Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:37:00 +0000 http://pmstudent.com/?p=3496#comment-25251 Another perspective through the eyes of the contractor. If you even HOPE to be able to get paid for the changes, you need to document the hell out of them. Even when there is no question on either side that the change order was a legitimate one, I have yet to see the owner who didn't try to negotiate the actual cost down, even if it had been agreed to in advance. The story an old timer told me has always stuck with me. The reason that you pay a prostitute in advance is the value of her services diminishes significantly after she has rendered them, and remains so... Until you need her services again........ So the wise contractor gets the owners agreement up front BEFORE the work starts otherwise risks a testy battle to get paid after the work is done... Good night from Jakarta.... BR, Dr. PDG, Jakarta http://www.getpmcertified.com Another perspective through the eyes of the contractor. If you even HOPE to be able to get paid for the changes, you need to document the hell out of them. Even when there is no question on either side that the change order was a legitimate one, I have yet to see the owner who didn’t try to negotiate the actual cost down, even if it had been agreed to in advance.

The story an old timer told me has always stuck with me. The reason that you pay a prostitute in advance is the value of her services diminishes significantly after she has rendered them, and remains so… Until you need her services again……..

So the wise contractor gets the owners agreement up front BEFORE the work starts otherwise risks a testy battle to get paid after the work is done…

Good night from Jakarta….

BR,
Dr. PDG, Jakarta
http://www.getpmcertified.com

]]> By: Dr. Paul D. Giammalvo http://pmstudent.com/missing-project-planning-data/#comment-12487 Dr. Paul D. Giammalvo Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:00:41 +0000 http://pmstudent.com/?p=3496#comment-12487 The really scary thing is, Josh, (at least for us Americans) is that the same people that brought you the B1 Bomber, the war in Iraq, GM and other corporate bailouts and the Post Office now want to manage our health care? What are they? INSANE? Not to drift too far off track here, to bring this back to project management, the "dirty laundry" of poor practices gets aired quickly- by those contractors who are inefficient going bankrupt. Unfortunately, our government (MOST governments?) don't think like this, hence having to bail out GM and other companies who cannot manage efficiently. An example of the inefficient saving the incompetent. Where is Darwin when we need him most? BR, Dr. PDG, headed to bed in Jakarta http://www.getpmcertified.com The really scary thing is, Josh, (at least for us Americans) is that the same people that brought you the B1 Bomber, the war in Iraq, GM and other corporate bailouts and the Post Office now want to manage our health care?

What are they? INSANE?

Not to drift too far off track here, to bring this back to project management, the “dirty laundry” of poor practices gets aired quickly- by those contractors who are inefficient going bankrupt. Unfortunately, our government (MOST governments?) don’t think like this, hence having to bail out GM and other companies who cannot manage efficiently. An example of the inefficient saving the incompetent. Where is Darwin when we need him most?

BR,
Dr. PDG, headed to bed in Jakarta
http://www.getpmcertified.com

]]> By: Dr. Paul D. Giammalvo http://pmstudent.com/missing-project-planning-data/#comment-25250 Dr. Paul D. Giammalvo Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:00:00 +0000 http://pmstudent.com/?p=3496#comment-25250 The really scary thing is, Josh, (at least for us Americans) is that the same people that brought you the B1 Bomber, the war in Iraq, GM and other corporate bailouts and the Post Office now want to manage our health care? What are they? INSANE? Not to drift too far off track here, to bring this back to project management, the "dirty laundry" of poor practices gets aired quickly- by those contractors who are inefficient going bankrupt. Unfortunately, our government (MOST governments?) don't think like this, hence having to bail out GM and other companies who cannot manage efficiently. An example of the inefficient saving the incompetent. Where is Darwin when we need him most? BR, Dr. PDG, headed to bed in Jakarta http://www.getpmcertified.com The really scary thing is, Josh, (at least for us Americans) is that the same people that brought you the B1 Bomber, the war in Iraq, GM and other corporate bailouts and the Post Office now want to manage our health care?

What are they? INSANE?

Not to drift too far off track here, to bring this back to project management, the “dirty laundry” of poor practices gets aired quickly- by those contractors who are inefficient going bankrupt. Unfortunately, our government (MOST governments?) don’t think like this, hence having to bail out GM and other companies who cannot manage efficiently. An example of the inefficient saving the incompetent. Where is Darwin when we need him most?

BR,
Dr. PDG, headed to bed in Jakarta
http://www.getpmcertified.com

]]> By: Josh Nankivel http://pmstudent.com/missing-project-planning-data/#comment-12486 Josh Nankivel Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:49:45 +0000 http://pmstudent.com/?p=3496#comment-12486 This is a great point Dr. Paul. My experience with this lies primarily in the way a specific federal agency works, and seeing it within private firms for internal projects. I think you hit the nail on the head. When you are making your money from projects and have a profit incentive tied specifically to how well you run your projects, "dirty laundry" in the form of poor practices are aired quickly. Thank you too Dr. Paul for the insight! This is a great point Dr. Paul. My experience with this lies primarily in the way a specific federal agency works, and seeing it within private firms for internal projects.

I think you hit the nail on the head. When you are making your money from projects and have a profit incentive tied specifically to how well you run your projects, “dirty laundry” in the form of poor practices are aired quickly.

Thank you too Dr. Paul for the insight!

]]> By: Josh Nankivel http://pmstudent.com/missing-project-planning-data/#comment-25249 Josh Nankivel Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:49:00 +0000 http://pmstudent.com/?p=3496#comment-25249 This is a great point Dr. Paul. My experience with this lies primarily in the way a specific federal agency works, and seeing it within private firms for internal projects. I think you hit the nail on the head. When you are making your money from projects and have a profit incentive tied specifically to how well you run your projects, "dirty laundry" in the form of poor practices are aired quickly. Thank you too Dr. Paul for the insight! This is a great point Dr. Paul. My experience with this lies primarily in the way a specific federal agency works, and seeing it within private firms for internal projects.

I think you hit the nail on the head. When you are making your money from projects and have a profit incentive tied specifically to how well you run your projects, “dirty laundry” in the form of poor practices are aired quickly.

Thank you too Dr. Paul for the insight!

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