The College of Performance Management (CPM) are holding their 34th annual workshop, EVM World on May 30 – June 1 2018’ at the Westin Beach Resort, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. This year’s theme, ‘Intelligently Linking Information for Better Program Management’, embodies
Your PMO Is More Than An Executive Assistant
Project Management Offices exist at all kinds of levels in an organization. You may have one set up to support 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 an
Primavera P6 Schedule % Complete Explained
Where are you in your schedule based upon planned performance? The Primavera P6 schedule % complete value specifies planned performance based on the baseline and current data date (DD). After creation of your schedule, including budget, and assignment of a baseline you will want to track
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
Primavera P6 Global and Project Calendars Explained
Global calendars are great, because they are available for multiple project schedules. But this advantage can be a double edged sword. Let’s take a look. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) review worksheet requires that calendars be defined at
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 about
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
How To Expand Levels in Deltek Acumen
This article looks at a simple and quick way to expand all levels of a project in the S1 // Projects and S3 // Risk tabs of Deltek Acumen. Since we started offering training for the Deltek Acumen suite, we have had a number of frustrated customers who were looking for a way to expand the WBS for their project to specified levels
Video – Understanding the Deltek Acumen Risk Exposure Chart
The following video is a live demonstration of a risk analysis process being performed in Deltek Acumen Risk. Once the analysis has been completed, you will see an explanation of the resulting Risk Exposure chart.
Summarizing Projects in Primavera P6 Explained
After you have updated your schedule you have one more step before the changes are fully implemented in Primavera P6. You have to summarize your project. When you first open Primavera P6 in project view, you are presented with a list of projects. Unlike a file based system, however, you can view much more than the