Is your schedule critical path incomplete or, perhaps, disjointed? There may be a number of reasons your critical path is intermittent. The solution however, may be as simple as adjusting the critical task threshold. There are legitimate reasons for gaps in your critical path. These include actual progress, which is displayed by blue bars. You […]
Project Success Factors
They say if you want to improve your golf swing focus on improving only one element of your golf swing at a time. The principle being if you focus on too many things at once you lose your focus altogether. When it comes to project management there are many elements you can focus on that […]
Responsible Organization vs. Performing Organization
What’s the difference between Responsible Organization vs. Performing Organization? On any given project, there is always the conversation on who is responsible for the accomplishment of certain segments of work. During the initial planning stages (often times during the proposal) of a program you develop a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), identifying a logical breakout of […]
Primavera P6 Professional EVM Features
Primavera P6 Professional EVM Features Increasingly of late, we’ve been getting enquiries about the capabilities of Primavera P6 Professional as far as performing Earned Value Management (EVM) is concerned. Can it do it? If so, can you help us use Primavera P6 for Earned Value Management? Can I develop a DoD or DoE certified EVM […]
Assigning Fixed Price Costs to Activities in Primavera P6
Yes, there is a way to assign a fixed price activity cost in Primavera P6 Professional. Primavera P6 has a standard process for creating and assigning labor, material, and equipment resources to compute activity cost. What if the activity is performed at a fixed price? Here we show you how to assign a fixed price […]
New Projects: PMOs Can Propose Them Too!
Yes, the PMO can propose new projects too! The PMO is a hub for all new project ideas and they’ll be coming in from all areas of the business. As PMOs are generally considered impartial, you might feel that you can’t put forward any ideas for new projects of your own. That’s not true! In […]
Calculated Results in Deltek Cobra
Deltek Cobra allows you to create ad-hoc calculated results when running reports. The purpose of this feature is to allow you to output values that do specific math on results that fall outside of those calculations performed in the Resource Calculations ancillary file. This article looks at the calculated results feature in Deltek Cobra and […]
Microsoft Project Quick Access Toolbar
The Microsoft Project Quick Access Toolbar is a great tool that can help the project manager with repeated commands. This can be extremely useful particularly during schedule creation or going through the updating process. There is normally more than one way to perform a feature command in Microsoft Project. Additionally, Microsoft recognizes that you may […]
Managing Project Risk
How well are you managing your project’s risk? For many project managers risk analysis is an addendum. And it’s not even the icing on the cake; it’s the sprinkles. Yes, most project managers do not think of risk management as an area of essential focus on their project. But risk management, never-the-less, is a primary […]
Primavera P6 Tested Configurations Archive
Primavera P6 Tested Configurations Archive Oracle Primavera publishes a tested configurations document with every release of Primavera P6 Professional and Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM). The purpose of the document is to inform IT professionals what versions of software should be used for a particular version of the P6 deployment. This includes, the operating […]