Project Management Offices exist at all kinds of levels in an organization. You may have one set up to provide PMO support on a particular large project, or a specific team. The PMO may be attached to a corporate division, or support the work of one country in a multi-national business. Or you may have […]
Microsoft Project and Adverse Weather Day Reserve
Harsh weather can be a huge risk on projects. And it is best to mitigate the effects of adverse weather by including a bad weather day reserve in your Microsoft Project schedule. Adverse weather is both impactful and common on projects. The temperature simply dropping below 32°F can halt concrete installations. And rain or snow […]
How Digital Disruption is Affecting Risk Management
How Digital Disruption is Affecting Risk Management How much computing power do you carry with you? Between a smart watch, your phone and the tablet computer you can slide easily into your bag, you probably walk around with more computing power than the first space rockets. Digital disruption is the idea that technology is bringing […]
How To Launch PMO Training for Executives
Frequently, we see leaders within an organization who mean well, but who simply don’t have the skills to be able to carry out their roles on projects. They might be senior managers who have a lot of experience, but who have never been in the role of project sponsor before. They might be board members […]
MIL-STD 881D Has Been Released
The MIL-STD-881D Standard is now released (April 9th, 2018) and is for use by all Departments and Agencies of the Department of Defense (DoD). The standard is for direction and should be included as a contract requirement. This Standard addresses mandatory procedures for all programs subject to DoD Instruction 5000.02. The MIL-STD-881D is a military […]
The 3 Must-Have Roles for Risk Management
The 3 Must-Have Roles for Risk Management When you think of risk management, what springs to mind first? For many people, it’s something like a risk discussion on a project aimed at uncovering risks or a log of project risks. Perhaps you think of a process for managing risk on projects. Whatever comes to mind […]
How To Get Your PMO Involved in Strategic Discussions
How To Get Your PMO Involved in Strategic Discussions How many times have you been in a meeting and felt you didn’t have the whole picture? Whether it’s a reference to a strategic decision, new plans for transformative change or something about the business landscape – it’s clear that they knew something that you didn’t. […]
Modeling Concrete Cure in Microsoft Project While Maintaining a Continuous Critical Path
There are two well-known ways to model concrete cure time in Microsoft Project. But both ways may generate critical path discontinuities is certain situations. The first way to model the concrete cure time in Microsoft Project is as an elapsed time lag. This works well to model the continuous nature of concrete curing through the […]
Deltek Acumen Risk and Activity Duration Uncertainty
Deltek Acumen Risk provides an efficient way to account for activity duration uncertainty in your schedule. All projects come with some level of risk. It’s the reality that besets the art and science of scheduling. And even a schedule with very few identifiable risks still has a degree of uncertainty in the duration estimates. Most […]
Critical Path Breaks
A typical schedules critical path should consist of a continuous sequence of activities from project start or status date to the finish milestone. If not, your schedule may have critical path breaks and need review. An unbroken and continuous critical path from project start to project finish is an important characteristic of a quality schedule. […]