Earlier this year, the Gartner PPM & IT Governance Summit in London, UK, had a heavy focus on data handling. There were several presentations covering Project Management Office measurements and metrics including speakers who looked at sample PMO
How To Report PMI Professional Development Units (PDUs)
Congratulation, you have just received your Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Manager Professional (PMP) certification, but the learning does not stop there. You continue the development of your skills by pursuing continuing education credits or as the PMI
Pentagon Releases Better Buying Power 3
The Pentagon has released the latest iteration of its Better Buying Power initiative. Frank Kendall, DoD’s top acquisition official (Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics), announced the release of Better Buying Power 3.0 on September 19th.
PARCA Releases IPM EVMS Interpretation Guide for Review
With the release of the Department of Defense Integrated Program Management EVMS Interpretation Guide, the Office of Performance Assessment and Root Cause Analysis (PARCA) has made a move towards helping practitioners
Primavera P6 Gantt Chart Bar Labeling Options
Oracle Primavera P6 Professional supports Gantt chart reporting with numerous labeling possibilities that not everyone is familiar with. Primavera P6 has both predefined labels and associated filters and the ability to create new bar labels. Some of these
What is a WBS Dictionary?
One of the pillars of any project is the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and the accompanying WBS Dictionary. Whether you are a contractor presenting the project baseline or the customer reviewing the baseline, the WBS and WBS Dictionary is your Rosetta stone
Creating a Believable Schedule
Defining activities is an important part of scheduling. Part of the complexity of the project is determined by the number of activities required to complete that project. When it comes to the size and/or placement of the activities, several control factors should be
How Do You Change Databases In Cobra?
The latest version of Deltek Cobra gives you the ability to easily switch between data sources. You could always do this, even back as far as the 4.X versions, but you needed to setup different icons on your desktop, batch files, etc…doable, but not
Primavera P6 Activity Relationships
Once the scheduler has defined unique activities with realistic durations, the next step of defining activity relationships may have a big impact on the length of the project. The scheduler uses the precedence diagramming
Critical Path Method: A Tale of Two Methods
The critical path is the shortest time duration in which a project may be completed. The critical path also has zero float, which means that a delay in any activity along the critical path will result in an extension of the project schedule