Microsoft Project has a great feature that allows you to display a critical path for each independent network of tasks within a project. This comes in handy when you want to display a schedule Contract Completion Date (CCD) milestone. Some scheduling guidelines require a separate milestone for the CCD. Schedulers in Microsoft Project can define […]
Node Band Themes in Primavera P6 EPPM
Sometimes a little color makes all the difference. Let’s discuss setting a node band themes style and color features to make working in the Enterprise Project Structure view more efficient. Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) release 18.8 has an Enterprise Project Structure (EPS) data structure for organizing projects in a hierarchy. The EPS […]
Project Management and PMO Career Paths
As a project manager, career paths are something you might spend a fair bit of time thinking about. Some businesses have formal job families for project and program-related careers. But many do not, and you are left to plan your own career and to work out what is next after Project Manager appears on your […]
eVa24 – Earned Value in the UK 24th Annual Conference
eVaintheUK 2019 are holding their annual two-day conference 10th and 11th April. eVaintheUK is in its 24th year and is known as eVa24. This years’ conference will focus the on the identity of Project controls. eVa24 is aimed at senior or middle management who have an interest in Project Management, project controls and Earned Value […]
Deltek Acumen Risk and Tornado Charts
Great! Your Deltek Acumen risk exposure histogram graph displays the probability of completing the project by a specific date. But which activities then should be risk mitigated to shorten the schedule? For this information look to the tornado plot. Schedule risk analysis first and foremost is communicated in a histogram risk exposure graph. This graph […]
Primavera P6 EPPM Roles & Role Teams
Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) has roles that are specific trade skills and role teams that are trade skills organized in crews. Primavera P6 EPPM roles come in handy in scheduling when the project manager knows that task and required trade skill to complete the task, but not the actual person doing the […]
Collaborate19
Oracle are holding their annual conference Collaborate19 from April 7- 11 2019. It will be hosted by the three Oracle community forums: the International Users Group (Quest), the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) and the Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG) who ‘collaborate’ together to offer product solutions and support to all Oracle users. Collaborate19 is […]
7 Risk Management Metrics to Track
7 Risk Management Metrics to Track We all know that managing risk across projects, programs and your entire portfolio, is important. Risk management is something that’s embedded into the way businesses are run and into project management methodologies. However, beyond the risk log, what kind of tracking do you do on risk? In this article […]
Project Challenge Spring Show 2019
The Project Challenge Spring Show 2019 is being held on March 21st 2019. This event is aimed at Project Management and offers project support when managing projects, programs, processes and resources effectively and efficiently. Project Challenge Spring Show 2019 isn’t industry specific and all levels of delegates are accommodated. Industry experts will present tools and […]
Document Management for the PMO
Document management is a way of referring to how documents are stored, retrieved and updated. It’s simply a way of organizing your files so that you can get hold of them when you need them again. Typically, document management these days refers to how you store electronic files. As there are a lot of documents […]