How do you assess your PMO’s Performance? Project leaders typically spend a lot of time monitoring the progress of their projects and programs: understandably so, as that’s where the value comes from. However, as Project Management Office leaders, wouldn’t it be good to know that your function is successful too? Assessing your PMO’s performance is […]
Good Rules for Estimating
Accurate estimating is a challenge, as you are typically attempting to predict the future based on past experience and limited data. Estimating is part science and part art, and made more difficult by a project’s uniqueness. Focus on sound estimating rules to significantly increase your opportunity for an accurate forecast. Estimators forecast the future; they […]
PMO Trends To Watch In 2017
Here are what we see as the PMO trends to watch for in 2017. At this time of year we like to reflect on what’s happened in the market over the last 12 months and also look forward to what’s coming. In PMO terms, at the moment every year feels like a seismic shift. This […]
DCMA 14-Point Assessment and the Critical Path Test
DCMA 14-Point Assessment and the Critical Path Test. Quality schedules have a continuous critical path from the project start milestone to the project finish milestone. It may, however, be difficult to perceive that your critical path is truly unbroken when you have a vast number of activities and, possibly, activity constraints. How can one be […]
Improving the Effectiveness and Maturity of Risk Management Process – Downloads
Thanks for attending our webinar Improving the Effectiveness and Maturity of Risk Management Process. Below are the links to the webinar’s presentation slides, video and the Risk Management Maturity Model. Presentation Slides Risk Management Maturity Model Key Webinar Points The main points we hope you took away from the webinar are: Risk management is a process, […]
Investigating and Addressing Resource Over-Allocation in Microsoft Project
Resource over-allocation is a common problem on projects. Do you know how to investigate resource over-allocations in Microsoft Project? You may have a highly optimized schedule that has fined tuned logic to complete the schedule in the least amount of time. Additionally, you may have accurate duration estimates provided the availability of critical resources. But […]
Microsoft Project Calendar Detailed Work Hours
If your Microsoft Project calendar project start date timestamp does not fall in line with the regularly scheduled work day, then your task finish times may not make sense. Let’s explore this further. The ‘Change Working Time’ dialogue provides the opportunity to specify detailed workday start and finish times. However, if your project start date […]
5 Ways To Track PMO Success
How do you track PMO Success? The Project Management Office in any business is often judged on the success (or otherwise) of the projects that it supports. Whether you’ve got a governance-based PMO or a supportive PMO, or some other flavor of PMO that works for you, you’ll have projects to track and report on. […]
DCMA 14-Point Assessment and Missed Tasks
If your schedule has excessive slippage, then the Defense Contract Management Agency’s (DCMA) Missed Tasks assessment may flag your schedule for further review. The DCMA 14-point assessment inspects schedules and provides rules for measuring the potential for a successful project. The DCMA Missed Tasks assessment in particular, measures how well the actual (in-progress) schedule is […]
Top Seven Things To Look For When Reviewing an Integrated Program Management Report (IPMR)
When reviewing an Integrated Program Management Report (IPMR) there are certain things I look for that can alert you to changes in the status of your project or highlight data integrity issues. The following list ranges from finding data anomalies that put the validity of the data into question, to analytics that help identify areas […]