When projects begin to slip management often chooses not to tack, but persists along its course until the project becomes a complete bust. But there are ways to manage an off track project to avoid the worst possible outcome. Organizations too often linger on projects that are quite evidently failing. The problem most
Installing SQL Server 2017 for Deltek Cobra to Primavera P6 Integration
This article shows how to connect Deltek Cobra 8.1 to a Primavera P6 Database. We will take you through step-by-step, complete with screens shots, exactly what you need to do. In summary the steps are as follows:
PMO Conference 2018: Trends and News
The PMO Conference in London, UK, is in its fourth year. It’s a large gathering of PMO people and focuses heavily on the issues, challenges, tools and process around PMO practices. We love it because it’s totally dedicated to the world of the project office, whereas many other project management process around PMO practices
White Paper – Difficult Conversations for PMO Leaders To Have
For the PMO leader, much of the working day is taken up with operational issues and ensuring that projects, programs and portfolios are operating as they should. From time to time, you’ll have to face difficult conversations to ensure that you can still deliver those projects, programs and portfolios as a team
Suspending Work Using Primavera P6 Professional
How do you indicate the suspension of work on an activity in Primavera P6 Professional? Sometimes all work on an activity is suspended, and then resumed at a later date. The cause of the suspension may vary. A classic example of a suspended activity is the suspension of pipe laying in a trench
5 Benefits of the Agile PMO
Agile methods are on the rise, and the chances are a project team near you will be using agile or adaptive approaches to manage their work. But agile works at the organizational level too. It goes beyond sprint-based planning and other techniques, and is something that can be
Deltek Acumen Fuse Diagnostics Custom Metric View
Deltek Acumen Fuse comes with a wealth of schedule diagnostics custom metrics and standard metric groups. But you can also create and customize your own metric groups suited to your schedule analysis requirements. Deltek Acumen Fuse provides an abundance of project analysis and diagnostics
Primavera P6 EPPM Default View Settings
Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management Release 16.1 and above comes in two views: Classic and Standard. How do you set your preferences in P6 EPPM to work in the Classic view? Oracle are moving away from Java in Primavera P6 EPPM, but it does not yet have enough features in its Standard view to warrant
How To Build Capacity In Your Team Through Recruitment
It won’t come as a surprise to you to know that having the right people on the team is crucial for project success. But how do you get the right people in the PMO? In this article, we’ll show you how. You have 3 options for growing your project management team with skilled staff
Controlling the Project Baseline In Primavera P6
To maintain the integrity of the schedule the baseline updating process should fall under some form of change management control. Primavera P6 Professional provides a few security profile settings to restrict baseline changes. Primavera P6 Professional has project baselines and user baselines. Project baselines are