The latest Pulse of the Profession report from PMI shows that ineffective management puts US $135 million at risk for every US $1 billion spent on a project. A massive 56% of that is at risk due to ineffective communications. In fact, your project might even fail as a result
Deltek Cobra 5.1.2 Activity and Resource Assignment File
With the release of Deltek Cobra 5.1.2, many new features have been added as outline in our previous article Deltek Releases Cobra 5.1.2. This article takes a closer look at Cobra’s new capability to load a combined activity and resource assignment CSV file via the Integration Wizard.
Deltek Cobra 5.1.2 is Released
Deltek Cobra 5.1.2 is Released! OK folks, cancel that long weekend you had planned at the Glendive Dinosaur & Fossil Museum; exciting news just in from Deltek – on April 16th they released a new version of Deltek Cobra. Exciting at least for sad chumps like me because this is way more fun than just […]
Deltek Cobra Data Dumps
I’ve been asked a few times lately to advise folks on how to get a simple data dump out of Deltek Cobra. So I figured I share a couple of simple tricks with you all showing how to do this.
Microsoft Project to P6 Conversion Alternatives
It seems that some of the known issues with the Microsoft Project import capabilities of Primavera P6 are driving some creative solutions out in the field.
The Longest Path
This article is mostly about item three – what is the difference between Total Float criticality and the Longest Path? There’s some confusion about this in the industry
5 Ways To Communicate Your EPM Launch
How have you communicated your EPM launch? So you’re going ahead with EPM launch? Congratulations! You’ll benefit from the consistent project management practices that this will build as well as better project governance and more successful project delivery. You know all this, or you wouldn’t be implementing EPM! But how do you get the message […]
5 Critical Measures for Your Project
The great thing about enterprise project management tools is that they give you plenty of ways to dice the data and see what’s going on with your project. When you are starting out, the number of reports and options can be daunting. So what should
Deltek Cobra – Nothin’ but zeroes in my Hours Columns
From time to time I get inquiries from Deltek Cobra 5 users who are seeing only zeroes in their Hours columns in the CAWP table. “What causes this and how do I fix it?” Here we look at the cause and potential solutions for this rather mysterious condition
Primavera P6 Baseline Backups
Keeping your Primavera P6 database lean and mean is a good idea, but it can be challenging in production environments where you need to keep a good audit trail of project status using baseline snapshots.