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 […]
How to Create A Charter for Your Project Management Office
While there are various types of Project Management Office charters, no two PMOs are exactly alike. They all serve their businesses in different, unique ways. That’s why it’s helpful to document what your PMO is going to do and what purpose it serves. In this article we’ll dive more into the purpose and benefits of […]
How To Use Technology To Improve PMO Capability
What PMO technology do you use? Many businesses make the decision to get started with PMO processes, (or risk management, or project management approaches) and then add the PMO technology in later. This is a perfectly acceptable approach, but it does have drawbacks. There’s no escaping that paper-based (“electronic” paper!), highly manual processes are cheap […]
How to Create Buy In for the PMO
Create Buy In For The PMO More often than not, when we are engaged to help an organization set up a PMO, executive managers have already committed to the idea of a Project Management Office. They understand the benefits and services that a PMO will provide. They see the strategic value inherent in the work […]
Microsoft Project Lag Filter
How to use the Microsoft Project lag filter. Recently one of our readers asked whether it is possible to create a filter in Microsoft Project to capture all tasks that have lag. Lag is waiting time between a predecessor task and a successor task. Tasks in Microsoft Project may have either a positive lag or […]
Making Open Ended Activities Critical in Primavera P6
How do you include a deadline date marker on your schedule Gantt chart and not lose your critical path? The answer is to make open ended activities critical. Let’s take a look. Projects come with deadlines. It is the hard truth of managing any project. And displaying the deadline on the Gantt chart is most […]
Different Types of Risk Reporting
Different Types of Risk Reporting The project managers in your organization should be tracking project risk on a regular basis. This allows them to log and respond to situations as they arise, to avoid issues before they happen. Preparing action plans that allow risks to be addressed, and then working through those plans is the […]
The Challenges of PMO Maturity
When we look at Project Management Office maturity levels, we often see that PMO leaders face a number of challenges in starting the journey. They want to move to a more mature PMO, offering a more services and providing more value to the business. But getting there isn’t as easy as you might think. Here […]