Why do PMOs fail? If you have been working in the world of Project Management Offices for any length of time you’ll know that the average life of a PMO is about 4 years. PMO practitioners around the world have been looking to improve on that for some time now, and with good reason. A […]
Webinar: Top 10 Tips from The Cobra Guy
Date: Thursday, November 10, 2016 Time: 11:00 AM Eastern Standard Time Duration: 1 hour Top 10 Tips from the Cobra Guy The Cobra Guy is on a mission is to share tips, tricks and helpful information about Deltek Cobra through our Ten Six blog. And now, we’re taking it live during an upcoming joint webinar […]
A More Descriptive Solution to the Negative Lags Dilemma
Removing negative lag or leads from your schedule is a noble cause. But replacing negative lag with positive lag and, perhaps, a start to start (SS) relationship may only be a partial solution. Negative lag or (lead) is a real problem in schedules. The following blog The Negatives of Negative Lag explains in detail the […]
Microsoft Project and the Must Start On Hard Constraint
When using Microsoft Project, there may be times when want to consider a Must Start On (MSO) constraint for tasks that must commence on a very specific date. There are, however, issues associated with MSO constraints. An example scenario is that you have a very tight window of opportunity to perform the quality assurance (QA) […]
The DCMA 14-Point Assessment and Hard Constraints
Hard constraints are date constraints on schedule activities that may cause them to violate activity dependency relationships, i.e. the network logic. Still limited application of these constraints is acceptable according to the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) 14-point assessment. The DCMA 14-point assessment was developed to raise the standard and quality of schedules; particularly those […]
Primary Drivers of Variances
Part of writing and developing good variance analyses requires an understanding and identifying of the primary drivers of variances. You can break down variances into to two key buckets: variances driven by technical issues and variances driven by rate issues. These can be defined further: Rate vs. Usage variance in Labor – A rate variance […]
How Can You Exclude Activities From Acumen Fuse?
When you are assessing your schedule’s quality, there are typically activities that you want to exclude from the analysis so they don’t cloud the results. You might have some activities that represent work your customer is going to do for example. You wouldn’t assign resources to this work (skews Normal Tasks with No Resource metric). […]
Oracle’s Primavera Global Business Unit is Gone
As part of the assimilation into Oracle, the Primavera Global Business Unit is no more. Don’t worry, Primavera P6 is not going anywhere, the business unit has been renamed to the Oracle Construction and Engineering Global Business Unit (CEGBU). This move reflects Oracle’s acquisitions over the past few years including Skire (now Primavera Unifier), Instantis […]
The DCMA 14-Point Assessment and Schedule Relationships
The Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) 14-point assessment prefers certain types of schedule relationships. The preferred relationship is finish-to-start (FS) for defining the interface between activities. Let’s take a look in more detail. The DCMA 14-point assessment was developed to support inspecting the quality of schedules. Project schedules that conform to the DCMA 14-point assessment […]
How Do You Manage Data In Deltek Acumen?
Deltek Acumen’s file structure is built around three levels of files. Each subsequent level rolls up to the parent level. By maintaining that structure you are able to quickly work with, assess and share data. The top level is called the Workbook. This is the heart of Acumen’s data maintenance and works just like a […]