Thanks for attending our webinar Improving Project Communication Through Risk Management. Below are the links to the webinar’s presentation slides, video and the Risk Management Maturity Questionnaire. Improving Project Communication Through Risk Management Presentation Slides Risk Management Maturity Questionnaire Key Webinar Points The main points we hope you took away from the webinar are: Risk […]
Displaying Driving Tasks in Microsoft Project
The larger and more intricate the schedule the greater the challenge to understand the relationships between tasks. Finding the one predecessor among several that may the cause of slippage can quickly become tedious. But Microsoft Project has features to support displaying driving tasks. Understanding the root cause of schedule slippage is a common dilemma in […]
Using a PMO in Strategic Planning
Using a PMO in strategic planning. If you want to move the discussion away from strategic alignment for projects and towards strategic execution – doing the work that will help you meet your business goals instead of just talking about it – then strategic planning is essential. The Project Management Office (PMO) has a huge […]
Slipping a Project in Deltek Cobra
Did you know you can slip a planned project in Deltek Cobra to a new start date? This neat feature allows you to tell Cobra the new start date and shift the entire project to the new starting date. This is cool because it sometimes happens that you setup a project ready to go, and […]
8 Benefits of Risk Management (Beyond Project Control)
Risk management is a core leadership approach that ensures any potential threats to success are identified and dealt with before they derail your project. For a project manager, risk management is a key process for project control. Armed with a risk log and a switched on team, the project manager can plan for any eventuality. […]
Webinar: Improving Project Communication Through Risk Management
Join our free 60 minute webinar Improving Project Communication Through Risk Management Risk management tools, processes, and information are often required for projects. Often, when it is done, risk management practices and process capture risks from within a project and entering them into a risk register. This is fine once the decision is made to […]
Primavera P6 Professional – Where’s My Admin Users menu item Gone?
What gives? My Users… menu item is missing in action in Primavera P6 Professional. Also, my Security Profiles item too. When you’re using one of the later versions or Primavera P6 Professional, like R8.4 or later, you may have noticed that the Users… menu item has vanished from the Admin menu. So what’s up with […]
Displaying Free Float and Total Float Gantt Chart Bars in Microsoft Project
How to display free float and total float Gantt Chart bars in Microsoft Project. Total float is important because it specifies how many days a task can postpone without delaying the entire schedule. A lesser known, but helpful tool is free float, which tells how many days a task can postpone without delaying a successor […]
Webinar: Improving the Effectiveness and Maturity of Risk Management Processes
Risk management is often required for projects, especially those that are large, high value or high risk. The more important a project/program is, the greater the likelihood that risk management will be carried out. However, in our experience, risk management, as a practice is not done consistently nor well enough to be helpful to the […]
Primavera P6 Professional and Critical Baselines
Baselines are important as schedule progress is measured against the baseline. When measuring progress, schedulers will want to pay particular attention to the critical path. It may also be helpful display a P6 critical baseline path for comparison with the critical path after updates. The critical path of a schedule may change depending on the […]