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Guides for project controls people
Plain, practical guides to the contracts, rules and checks that shape capital programmes. Written by people who have run project controls.
NEC4 Option C explained
How a target contract with an activity schedule works: the Prices, Defined Cost, the Fee, Price for Work Done to Date and the Contractor's share.
Read the guide Guide · 8 min readProvision 29 for capital programmes
What Provision 29 of the UK Corporate Governance Code asks of boards, and what it means for the controls on a capital programme.
Read the guide Guide · 9 min readEarned value basics
Planned value, earned value and actual cost, the variances and indices, and the common ways to forecast the final cost, with a worked example.
Read the guide Guide · 10 min readDCMA 14-point checks
The fourteen schedule quality checks, what each one tests, the usual thresholds and how to fix what they find.
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