Project action plans are particularly useful when dealing with a complex project, as many individuals and groups will be involved through the project timeline, more so than with a traditional project. With this many involved parties, project managers must understand the extent of involvement and how to use resources and parties most effectively is essential […]
What is a Hammock Activity?
What is a Hammock Activity? Hammocks… is the first thing that comes to mind a beautiful sandy beach, dotted with palm trees and fabric slung between them? Or perhaps you picture a forest setting, with your bed for the night hung between two majestic tree trunks? If you are a project professional, you’re likely to […]
Non-work Time Necking on Primavera P6 Gantt Chart Bars
How do you adjust the non-work time necking on the P6 Gantt chart? That is, the narrow necking for calendar non-work time where you’d want to eliminate the narrow necking between the close of business and the next day start of work. Let’s take a look at this in more detail. The Gantt chart is […]
Involving the Project Client
To understand and appreciate the demands of a project manager and their project team in achieving project goals, the project client or representative of the parent company must know more about what the project team does. Educate the Client from the Beginning As stated above, it’s quite common for the client to not fully grasp […]
Leading a Project Team
Leading a project team is with the right skills and experience is critical to project success. Newly created project teams need strong leadership and structure in order to start on the important project items. Much responsibility is placed with the project manager early in the project timeline, and if the project manager is unsuccessful, they […]
Using a Project Profile
A project profile gives a look at a project from a measurable point and provides valuable insight in the development of a project action plan. This project profile can also help determine the resource allocation of the project. An analysis of the environment, both internal and external, gives information about the project that helps the […]
Creating a Project Risk Plan
How to Create a Project Risk Plan Risk management requires a systematic approach to identify, analyze and respond to potential risk of the project. A flaw that is commonly seen in project management, is project managers trying to manage and handle risk informally, and without prior planning. Using this approach is opening themselves and the […]
7 Sources of Free Earned Value Management Training
Free Earned Value Management Training A quick Google for ‘free earned value training’ will return thousands of results. Have you got time to trawl through them all hoping to find the gems that will get you started quickly? Thought not… but you’re in luck because we’ve done it for you! There is a lot of […]
5 Risk Areas to Highlight During the IBR Process
Risk Areas to Highlight Are you preparing for an Integrated Baseline Review (IBR)? The IBR process is part of making sure your program is compliant with earned value management standards and that there is a robust baseline against which to track performance. It’s also an exercise in risk identification. In fact, we’d go as far […]
The Intersection Analyzer in Deltek Acumen Fuse
Acumen Fuse’s Intersection Analyzer Acumen Fuse has many metrics to inspect the health of your project. The question is how can you focus in on a single metric and compartmentalize the performance? The Deltek Acumen Fuse ribbon analyzer provides metric group results for the whole life of the project; the phase analyzer separates these results […]