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Melanie Calverley is an experienced professional with several years of knowledge and practice in Project Management as a Program Cost and Schedule Control Analyst on multi-million/multi-billion dollar projects, Project Controls, Strategic Planning, Engineering Planning, Earned Value Management (EVM), and Earned Value Management System (EVMS) implementation, Configuration Management, and writing/editing. She commands full utilization of Primavera P6 software, MS Project, and MS Project Server. Her career background includes industry experience in oil and gas, energy, aerospace/defense, IT, litigation, and media.
Calverley has extensive experience in the planning and scheduling arena since 1999, as well as extensive experience in the aerospace and oil and gas industries combined. Calverley has worked for the large and high-visibility players in the aerospace industry - Boeing and Lockheed Martin, as well as the large companies in the O&G industry, such as Schlumberger, GE Energy, and Chevron. She supported NASA directly and a host of smaller sub-contractors over the years before exploring the O&G and IT industries. Calverley understands the strict, organized flow of the aerospace industry's horizontal and vertical logic integration, the criticality of resource loading, and the reporting functions that support Earned Value Management (EVM). She has also participated in various audits such as DCMA audits, JSRs, ISRs, and CAM reviews. In 2013, Calverley was responsible for implementing a full EVMS in Primavera for Cameron International's (now Schlumberger) Process Systems Division across the globe. The system was fully tested and successfully implemented and run in the United States, Brazil, the UK, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Middle East.
Calverley owns her own business, Calverley Consulting, LLC, which has been operational since 2017. Calverley is also a solid writer, editor, and process flow documentation expert. She possesses a full command of the proper English language, and she is also a published book author. Calverley developed and championed multiple process flows and written documentation via policies and procedures for various well-known companies.
Focus on Schedule Lag in Primavera P6
Introduction to Primavera P6 Schedule Lag When scheduling and planning to utilize scheduling best practices, one of the subjects that the project team will try to avoid is the subject regarding schedule lag. Positive schedule lag should be used sparingly, and although the Defense Contract Management Association (DCMA) allows limited positive lags in the project schedule, no more than five percent of these positive lags should exist. DCMA provides contract administration services for the Department of Defense (DoD) and other federal organizations and international partners. The organization is a key part of the acquisition process from pre-award contracts throughout [...]
Primavera P6 Visual Appeal and Formatting
Primavera P6 offers an array of visual features and formatting for its project schedules. Users can benefit from changing bar labels to highlight areas in the Gantt to enhance the analysis of the project data and timeline. This article addresses several of the useful and popular visual features that you can utilize in your Primavera P6 schedules. How to Show Text Bar Labels in the Gantt Sometimes a client wants to see the taskbar labels or text descriptions in the Gantt chart portion of the schedule. The snapshot below shows a Primavera P6 schedule without bar labels: To show [...]
Suspending Project Work in Primavera P6
The Suspend Work Conundrum When Managing Projects In a perfect world, projects are executed on time and budget (or even ahead of schedule and below cost) and have a continual run until the end goal of the project is completed and closed out. Project managers and other project team professionals know that situations may dictate otherwise when executing a project schedule. A specific activity or group of activities may be temporarily suspended, or even the project itself may experience a suspension in operations due to an unforeseen circumstance. The suspension cause can vary as much as the type of [...]
Removing Partial and All Logic within the Primavera P6 Schedule
Logic and the Primavera P6 Project Schedule Primavera P6 schedules can range from a few lines of schedule to thousands of lines of schedule, depending on a variety of factors including the product line or service, the industry, the type of project schedule, and more. There are situations where a Primavera P6 user may need to remove a significant portion or even all of the logic ties within a Primavera P6 project schedule. Typically, a Primavera P6 user may need to remove individual logic links between a few activities, and this is easily performed by highlighting the task and [...]
How to Maintain & Backup Primavera P6 Baseline Schedules
It is the best plan to keep the Primavera P6 database slim and clear for effective work. But it is not easy in creative surroundings. Because in such a working environment, the users have to keep a record of their projects with the help of baseline images. Hence the Primavera P6 databases will become a messy junction of numerous matters It may contain past codes, project duplicates, etc. When you will take screenshots or copy them, your P6 database will store them as an addition to clustering. And such cluster junks will affect the performance speed of the database. [...]
Primavera P6 Professional or Microsoft Project
Overview Differences between Primavera P6 Professional VS. Microsoft Project Conclusion Overview In scheduling our projects, should we use Primavera P6” or Microsoft Project? This is a commonly asked question from people in the industry. The advantages that Primavera has over Microsoft Project, that is what we are going to describe in the following lines. There are many differences between Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project. Mainly, Primavera P6 has database dependency, while Microsoft Project is file-based dependent. Primavera P6 represents enterprise software while the Microsoft Project is a Windows desktop application and then evolved to include enterprise capabilities for achieving [...]
