PM Tools by a PM
PM Tools by a PM
Four free downloads, built to the same standard as work I would hand to a client. Enter your email once and all four are yours. No trial, no catch.
Nine questions about reporting, schedule control, risk follow-up and meeting actions. Free, about three minutes, and it tells you which of these downloads, if any, is worth your time first.
The schedule shows what is late before the client does. The checklist tells you which notice to send. The log makes sure you can prove it. The register flags it before it happens. Each is useful alone; together they are a system.
Most construction schedules still live in Excel. This one is built properly: each activity follows its predecessor, the Gantt chart redraws itself, and every activity is measured against a status date. The second sheet checks whether the schedule is healthy enough to report from.
Every clause that gives you a right — to time, to money, to both — has a notice requirement attached to it. Miss the notice, lose the right. This is the reference sheet that stops that happening.
Most daily logs record what happened. This one records what a claim needs — so when a delay event lands, the evidence already exists. It was written on an ordinary Tuesday, before anyone knew Tuesday mattered.
The structure and the scoring engine, ready to use. The risks themselves are yours — they belong to your project, your contract, your site. What this gives you is somewhere disciplined to put them.
The free tools give you the structure. The Starter Kit fills it in: a 150-risk construction library, change and variation control with the notice clock counting down, cost control with a real contingency check, and a monthly report that takes every number from a file.
Ten tools, each with a blank template and a fully worked example on the same project. USD 47, one payment.
The free version gives you an empty register and honest structure. The paid version gives you the hundred and fifty risks I have watched land, and what they cost.
FIDIC cases, quality systems, schedule control, and new tools. Written from real projects, not from a classroom. No filler, and nothing you could have found in a textbook.