With each project comes risk and that’s where a risk management process comes in. Managing risk is something that all project managers are responsible for, both in terms of risk assessment and mitigation strategy. Risk assessment involves both identifying, analyzing and evaluation of the risk and its potential impact. A risk mitigation plan is used […]
PMI Houston 2023 Conference & Expo
This year’s PMI Houston 2023 Conference & Expo is being held on August 28 – 29, 2023. The Houston Chapter is one of the world’s largest Project Management Institute Chapters, with over 4,500 Members. Multiple industries are represented within the Houston Chapter, ranging from Engineering and Construction, Oil and Gas and Government to IT Healthcare, […]
What Is Deltek Acumen Risk?
What is Deltek Acumen Risk? And how can it support my project scheduling efforts? Deltek Acumen Risk is a risk management software program that works in conjunction with the schedule quality assessment software program Acumen Fuse. Acumen Risk helps project team members bring realism into the project schedule. Acumen Risk supports the scheduler’s efforts to […]
Project Quality: Planning and Control
The best project quality is found by effective planning rather than reaction to unexpected factors. The way most organizations are able to do this, is through implementing processes and standards that help lead the team to success. Defining Measurements During a project’s execution phase, the activities and products are taken and tested for quality to […]
Professional Development Activities You Can Do In A Lunch Break
Professional development is expected from all of us working in the project management industry – it’s something that we make sure is a focus for our team here in the office too. But we also understand how hard it is to find time in the day to learn something new. Below, we’ve pulled together 5 […]
4 Goals for EVMS Training
Goals for EVMS Training Earned value management has a bit of a reputation in the project management world for being difficult to implement and tricky to run. In our experience, the exact opposite is true: when you have a mandatory contract requirement to use earned value principles for project controls, and the willingness to make […]
Snapshots in Acumen Fuse Explained
Snapshots in Acumen Fuse are simply a project that has been added to the workbook and represents a project in some state of progress. For example, let’s say you have a project baseline loaded into an Acumen workbook. After a month, you have an updated version of that project, and you want to compare it […]
Earned Value Management Glossary – Free Download
We have created an Earned Value Management Glossary of the most common terms used in the world of Earned Value Management. This is a free download with no registration required. Earned Value Management (EVM) is full of acronyms that can appear confusing to folks new to the EVM world. So to help you, we put […]
7 Challenges All Experienced Project Managers Hit
Top Challenges Project Managers Face Even experienced project managers struggle sometimes. We did a quick poll in the office and drawing on our many years of experience leading programs in the field, we identified the top 7 challenges we’ve seen on projects large and small. We have listed the challenges below, along with a couple […]
3 Processes That Support Integrated Baseline Reviews
Integrated Baseline Reviews – Are You Prepared? Are you getting ready for an Integrated Baseline Review (IBR)? There are three processes that will help you prepare. They are: Baseline maintenance process Risk management process Scheduling processes Do you have all these in place? Read on to find out how your processes shape up. Maintain the […]