When you are assessing your schedule’s quality, there are typically activities that you want to exclude from the analysis so they don’t cloud the results. You might have some activities that represent work your customer is going to do for example. You wouldn’t assign resources to this work (skews Normal Tasks with No Resource metric). […]
Oracle’s Primavera Global Business Unit is Gone
As part of the assimilation into Oracle, the Primavera Global Business Unit is no more. Don’t worry, Primavera P6 is not going anywhere, the business unit has been renamed to the Oracle Construction and Engineering Global Business Unit (CEGBU). This move reflects Oracle’s acquisitions over the past few years including Skire (now Primavera Unifier), Instantis […]
The DCMA 14-Point Assessment and Schedule Relationships
The Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) 14-point assessment prefers certain types of schedule relationships. The preferred relationship is finish-to-start (FS) for defining the interface between activities. Let’s take a look in more detail. The DCMA 14-point assessment was developed to support inspecting the quality of schedules. Project schedules that conform to the DCMA 14-point assessment […]
Movie: Adding Deadline Dates to a P6 Professional Gantt Chart
How to add Deadline, or other passive milestone markers, to a Primavera P6 Professional Gantt Chart. From time to time I get asked if there’s some way to put objects on a Primavera P6 Professional Gantt chart without having to use activities to do it. Typically this question comes up when the project team want […]
Oracle Releases Primavera P6 EPPM 16.2
Exciting news from Oracle as they launch their second P6 release for 2016, Primavera P6 EPPM 16.2 (Enterprise Project Portfolio Management). Primavera P6 EPPM 16.2 focuses entirely on the web based version of the software, so there’s nothing much to write about here for Primavera P6 Professional users. This is, nevertheless, tremendous news for the […]
How Do You Manage Data In Deltek Acumen?
Deltek Acumen’s file structure is built around three levels of files. Each subsequent level rolls up to the parent level. By maintaining that structure you are able to quickly work with, assess and share data. The top level is called the Workbook. This is the heart of Acumen’s data maintenance and works just like a […]
The DCMA 14-Point Assessment and Negative Lag (Lead)
Negative lags are not recommended by the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) 14-point assessment because at best they can interrupt the forward flow of activities from beginning to end. And, if used improperly, negative lags can easily generate unrealistic network logic. This article examines why the DCMA lead criteria forbids the use of negative lag and looks […]
5 Annual Objectives for PMO Leaders
You might be wondering why we’re focusing on annual objectives for PMO leaders right now, when typically you’ll see articles about goal setting at the start of the year. It’s because now is a great time to be reflecting on objectives and making sure that you and the team are on track to achieve them. […]
Adjusting Gantt Chart Activity Labels to Support Timescale Compression in Primavera P6
Printing a complete schedule displaying the full Gantt chart activity labels in the Primavera P6 often can prove a challenge. Here we look at how to adjust Gantt chart activity labels to fully utilize our available real-estate for displaying and printing the Gantt chart. Typically schedulers find themselves torn between fitting their activity table and […]
Our Deltek Acumen Fuse Training Now Available!
We are pleased to announce the release of our unique Deltek Acumen Fuse training to add to our existing Acumen Risk class. Both classes are a day in duration and are focused on how to get the most out of the tools to improve your project performance. Our Deltek Acumen Fuse class, is being offered […]