If your schedule has excessive slippage, then the Defense Contract Management Agency’s (DCMA) Missed Tasks assessment may flag your schedule for further review. The DCMA 14-point assessment inspects schedules and provides rules for measuring the potential for a successful project. The DCMA Missed Tasks assessment in particular, measures how well the actual (in-progress) schedule is […]
Top Seven Things To Look For When Reviewing an Integrated Program Management Report (IPMR)
When reviewing an Integrated Program Management Report (IPMR) there are certain things I look for that can alert you to changes in the status of your project or highlight data integrity issues. The following list ranges from finding data anomalies that put the validity of the data into question, to analytics that help identify areas […]
Monitoring Deadline Dates in Primavera P6 EPPM
It’s very common for schedules that have a contract deadline date that does not match the project’s projected completion date. In these cases, one thing folks want to do is monitor both in relation to each other. Projects have deadlines; it’s a fact of project management. One main value of scheduling software is that you […]
Roper Technologies Buys Deltek for $2.8B
Deltek announced on December 6th, that it is being acquired for $2.8 Billion. Private equity firm Thoma Bravo which purchased Deltek in 2012 has now sold the company to Roper Technologies (NYSE:ROP). Deltek will still operate as separate company within Roper Technologies and maintain it’s brand and product names, strategy and global team. In addition, […]
DCMA 14-Point Assessment – Invalid Dates
Are you familiar with the Defense Contract Management Agency’s (DCMA) invalid dates assessment. Do your activity forecasted and/or actual dates and schedule data date accurately reflect the status of your project? The status date or data date, depending on your scheduling software terminology, is similar to the closing statement date of your checking account. The […]
Defining Portfolios in Primavera P6 EPPM
Dashboards is a feature in Primavera P6 EPPM that displays various plots and tables of a portfolio of projects. The key is knowing how to create a portfolio so you know what projects you are looking at when the dashboards are displayed. Dashboards are front and center in the Primavera P6 EPPM interface. They are […]
Who Needs Scheduling Best Practice Training?
“I’ve been using my scheduling tool for years. I know critical path method inside out, and I’ve built and managed numerous major schedules. So why would I need to attend a scheduling best practice training course?” Good scheduling professionals may have the above mindset – and rightly so. They have learned by experience to operate very […]
How Deltek Acumen Will Help Prevent DCMA Surveillance Audits
About a year ago we wrote about the new DCMA surveillance approach based on metric based analysis to determine the need and areas of focus for surveillance audits. In an attempt to bring more efficiency to the surveillance process, DCMA defined a series of metrics in relation to all ANSI 32 criteria. The goal is […]
DCMA 14-Point Assessment and High Duration Tasks
Does your schedule have excessively high duration tasks? The Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) says activities longer than 44-days (approximately 2-months) are not ideal, and should be limited. The quality of schedules is certified by the DCMA 14-point assessment. Schedules that meet or exceed the assessment have a significantly greater opportunity for success. The high […]
Addressing Critical Path Issues in Primavera P6 Using a 7-day Workweek Calendar
If you’ve modeled your concrete cure time as a task in Primavera P6 Professional having a unique 7-day workweek calendar you may have found that your critical path in certain instances becomes discontinuous or disjointed. There is more than one approach to modeling lag, (e.g. concrete cure time) in Primavera P6. It is possible to […]