This years Deltek Insight annual conference is being held on the 23rd-26th October at the Gaylord Opryland Convention Center, 2800 Opryland Drive, Nashville, TN, 37214. This is an event that attracted over 3,500 people last year and is growing from
Primavera P6 Professional File Transfer Requirements
Are you transferring a Primavera P6 schedule file from one counterpart P6 database to another, most likely from subcontractor to customer? If so, then you and your counterparts will want to establish
Are You Receiving Accurate Project Status Reports?
When project managers turn in their weekly or monthly status reports, the real work begins for the Project Management Office. Even if your project management software does a lot of the data crunching for you, there’s still an element of human interaction
Microsoft Project and Shading Gantt Chart Time Periods
It is possible in Microsoft Project to shade a time period on the Gantt chart as nonworking time, and not necessarily require Microsoft Project to reschedule tasks around this time period. Sometimes schedulers want to shade nonworking time on the Gantt chart
Primavera P6 WBS Summary Activity and Deliverable Completion Dates
Primavera P6 Professional may not show the correct completion date of your Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) element or deliverable when filtering activities by start dates. The WBS summary activity, however, rectifies this situation. Using the bars feature it is possible to display a
PM Summit – Dublin, Ireland
PM Summit is holding its’ annual summit at Citywest Hotel, Dublin Ireland, on Thursday 5th October 2017. With so many project management related events going on throughout the year, it’s easy to overlook this one in all the noise. Offering a day packed with great speakers sharing
Dissolving an Activity in Primavera P6
Is there a way in Primavera P6 Professional to remove an activity and maintain schedule logic continuity? Yes, there is. It’s done by dissolving an activity instead of deleting that activity. Schedules often require updates and changes as the process of envisioning and planning a project comes together
Video: Deltek Acumen Fuse Diagnostics In Action
We recently published an article that shows you how to run a schedule diagnostic in Deltek Acumen Fuse. The Acumen Fuse tool is a one-stop shop for much of your schedule analysis during the development of a
Leveling Resources within Total Float to Maintain Project Finish Date In Primavera P6
Unless you specify otherwise, Primavera P6’s default setting will allow leveling to delay the project finish date.
Schedules come with deadlines; it’s one of the challenges of managing a project. So, you really do not want to delay your project more then you have to. It makes sense then that you do not want to level
Portfolio Management in Small Companies
“Portfolio management – that’s something only big firms do, isn’t it?” Not at all! Even small businesses can benefit from taking a portfolio management approach to managing their projects. In fact, you could argue that portfolio management is even more important