I had a customer who updated his schedule with your project’s latest progress, but his upper level manager says he hasn’t. Who’s right? In this case, the answer was: both are right. What? How can both be right? Either the schedule was updated or not, right?
Duration Estimates and Pure or Gross Worktime
An important distinction when creating duration estimates is whether the time estimated represents pure work time or gross work time. There is a difference between the two. Pure work time is 100% uninterrupted work focused on the respective
How To Get Senior Management Support For Risk Processes
Very few businesses start out with an enterprise or portfolio approach to robust risk management. It’s something that is designed into process improvements over time, or managed as a maturity initiative. In other words, implementing risk management is
Microsoft Project and Task Calendars
Microsoft Project schedules tasks based on the project calendar, but it is possible to define a unique calendar specific to a task situation. These are called task calendars. Typically, most work on a project is performed using the same
Oracle Releases Primavera P6 Version 17.7
This just in…
Today sees the arrival of the first “on premises” Primavera P6 release for 2017 from our friends at Oracle. Officially this is version 17.7, wait 17.1? “Huh – what happened to the other six?” we hear you ask. Well, there’s been a subtle change in the naming convention
Primavera P6 EPPM and the Gantt Chart Late Bar
Oracle is in the process of converting Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) to a non-java based coded software. At the time of writing this article they are only part way along this journey. In the meantime they let users switch back and forth between the new HTML5
Understanding Schedule Critical Drag
Critical activities are all the schedule tasks that cannot delay without postponing the completion date of the project. Therefore, these activities are rightly called critical; you definitely want to pay attention to momentum on these activities
Primavera P6 EPPM Multiple Float Paths and the Longest Path
The longest path through the schedule is a key concept. It tells how long the schedule takes. Further – activities along the longest path should be adjusted to support schedule compression and optimization efforts. The term “critical path” is often used to refer to the “longest path”. But an activity that is critical
7 Specialist Services Your PMO Can Offer
Project Management Offices are all about tracking, right? Well, not really. While supporting teams to track individual projects and monitoring the health of the portfolio overall are key services that the PMO can offer your exec team, that’s not where
Microsoft Project and the Start No Earlier Than Constrained Milestone
Start No Earlier Than (SNET) constraints in Microsoft Project are helpful for modeling external constraints, such as delivery of material. But you may want to add a constrained milestone to properly assign accountability for delivery related schedule slippage