What do you put in your PMO end of year report? Another 12 months has passed and it’s time to take stock of what your PMO has achieved in the last year. A PMO end of year report is a common deliverable for all teams, and the PMO is no exception. In this article, we’ll […]
PMO Trends to Watch in 2019
PMO Trends to Watch in 2019 Two things happen about this time of year: we all start talking in the office about how fast the last 12 months have gone. And we pour through journals, trade magazines and sum up our diverse experience with clients to assess what trends will be hitting Project Management Offices […]
Creating a WBS in Chart View in Primavera P6
The Primavera P6 WBS chart view provides a nice hierarchical diagram of the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). It also has a great feature that allows you to create the WBS chart view in Primavera P6? Here we show you how. Creating the WBS is an important first step in scheduling a Primavera P6 Professional project. […]
7 Key Criteria for Successful Risk Management
Risk management is often seen as something that project managers do. However, an effective way of managing risk across the business relies on taking a joined up approach. Risk management should be integral to the way your teams work. Here are 7 key criteria that can help you manage your approach to risk and be […]
Exporting A Primavera P6 Schedule Without Costs
A customer recently asked how to provide a subcontractor a copy of a Primavera P6 cost loaded schedule, and not include the costs? In this situation, we have a subcontractor that needs to view the schedule to perform their work, but we do not want them to see any labor cost data or any other […]
10 Project Selection Criteria for Your PMO
10 Project Selection Criteria for Your PMO The lifeblood of any Project Management Office (PMO) is a stream of new ideas that turn into projects. Projects help deliver strategy, and they keep the team busy doing valuable work that helps the business achieve its objectives. The biggest challenge for business leaders is to decide what […]
Making Deltek Acumen Fuse Metrics Available to New Workbooks
Many folks want to create and save Deltek Acumen Fuse Metrics and make it available to new Acumen Fuse workbooks. Deltek Acumen Fuse software provides a plethora of metrics for inspecting the quality of your respective schedule. It also organizes these metrics into metric groups. This includes the Schedule Quality group that Acumen provides as […]
Deleting Tasks in Microsoft Project and How to Delete a Relationship
There is more than one way to delete a task in Microsoft Project. Here we explore a few different approaches that folks use. Relationships often change throughout the planning stages of a project. And it may be just as helpful to know how to delete a relationship, as it is to create one. Yes, there […]
Introduction to BI Publisher Webinar
Join our last free 2-hour webinar of 2018 Introduction to Oracle BI Publisher Join our Introduction to BI Publisher webinar. BI Publisher is Oracle’s powerful report development tool that is integrated with Primavera P6 EPPM, Primavera Contract Management and Primavera Unifier. However, BI Publisher can also be used as a reporting tool for any application […]
Loading Equipment Costs in Primavera P6
How to use equipment costs in Primavera P6. A student recently asked how to cost load equipment in Primavera P6 that extends over multiple activities that may overlap. Let’s take a look. The cost of equipment is usually charged on an hourly or monthly basis. A piece of equipment may provide support for more than one […]