Safran Blog

When projects over-deliver, significant cost and schedule overrun are usually the two biggest casualties. Scope creep is a risk in the vast majority of projects – as an area of project management, it’s widely known, often well understood yet frustratingly difficult to avoid. Here we look at four fundamental causes of this phenomenon.

Our latest download explores how the four variables of activity duration, cost, resources, and risk can be best optimized when working with complex schedules in SAP Project System (PS).

Learn. Share. Discover | Forum Safran | Oct 30th–31st 2018 | Sola Strand Hotel 

We are excited to be hosting Blake Fox, Project Planning Manager at Norway’s largest energy operator, Equinor, as one of three guest speakers at this year’s Forum Safran conference.

Managing a large aerospace project is no mean feat. With so many aspects to juggle and keep control of, investing in a specialist software solution will undeniably make your life easier and help ensure that your project is delivered on time and on budget – no matter what comes your way.

Our next webinar on the 23rd of October examines how Navantia, one of Europe's leading defence manufacturers and contractors, gained a greater level of project control with their SAP solution. Hosted by the UK SAP User Group, this is not one to be missed.

Aker BP has teamed up with Safran to improve its risk management analyses across all Oil and Gas developments. 

The annual Forum Safran user conference is fast-approaching. From October 30th, project controls and planning professionals from around the world will congregate at the Sola Strand Hotel, Stavanger, to learn, share, discover, and benefit from high-value seminars presented by fellow project controls professionals.

Returning for its 18^th consecutive year, Forum Safran promises to be bigger and better than ever, with our largest collection of keynote speakers, training sessions, and demonstrations .

Keeping every member of a project team up-to-date can be arduous. Historically, the production of weekly, or bi-weekly, reports depleted the planning department's valuable time and resources, and reducing this expenditure wasn't possible without significant compromises to project members.

Experience tells us that project schedules persistently overrun. To try and counter this, project professionals must spend the time ensuring the schedule is reliable, meets project requirements, and contains all the necessary work. What’s more, schedules should be built according to acknowledged best practices, such as the US Government Accountability Office’s Schedule Assessment Guide and the DCMA 14 Point Assessment. And health checks are another powerful tool in a project manager's arsenal, used worldwide by many businesses and governments to assess the credibility of the project schedule.