If you’re developing a new Deltek Cobra project or making changes to an existing one, you may see the following warnings appear in the log file when you run a recalculation. “[Warning] No rate found for MECHENG, rate set MECHENG on or before 12/01/2011”
Deltek Releases Cobra 5.1 HotFix #11 (Build 5.01.404)
We were so excited by this news, that we forewent the morning coffee and doughnuts, booted up our Primavera P6 R8.2 test environment and promptly integrated a P6 R8.2 schedule into the belly of Deltek Cobra 5.1 (HotFix #11).
5 Tips for Successful Status Meetings
5 Tips for Successful Status Meetings Meeting your project team or key stakeholders to discuss status is a critical part of managing a project. But everyone hates attending a meeting for the sake of it. Here are 5 tips for making your status meetings as good as possible, and completely painless. 1. Be Prepared It […]
Oracle Primavera P6 Professional – Hint Help
Like me, you may be leery of built in help systems because your past experience with them has been less than positive.
Movie: Deltek Cobra 5 Time Saving Reporting Tips
One of the team here at Ten Six produced a quick one minute video related to running a Deltek Cobra report. This video shows a time saving tip when running reports in Deltek Cobra. Scenario You may have noticed that when you run a Deltek Cobra report, the file field is often blank. This forces […]
Calculating ROI for Enterprise Project Management Tools
When implementing enterprise project management tools such as Primavera P6, there are many savings that are often not taken into account when creating the business case. The list below is not meant to be exhaustive
Can You Run Primavera P6 on a Mac?
We get a few questions about whether tools like Primavera P6 Professional, Deltek Cobra, MPM and wInsight can run on Apple’s OSX, including the MacBook Pro. Ignoring Primavera P6’s EPPM web client for the moment
Primavera P6 8.2 Professional and Optional Client – Explained
The latest release of the Primavera P6 suite (Revision 8.2 December 2011) brings another change to the way the Professional client functions depending on whether you are installing it in an EPPM or P6 Professional environment. While this change is definitely for the better, it has generated a little confusion, so we’ll clarify things for you right now.
Primavera P6 Optional Client R8.1
Primavera P6 release 8.1 introduced a new iteration of an old favorite, the P6 Professional client, but in a form that has caused a little buzz and a little confusion among the user community. To clarify what exactly the P6 Optional client is, we thought it would be a good idea to both tell you what it is, and show you what it looks like.
SQLServerException: The TCP/IP connection to the host, port 1433 has failed.
SQLServerException: The TCP/IP connection to the host [name], port 1433 has failed. Error: “Connection refused: connect. Verify the connection properties, check that an instance of SQL Server is running on the host and accepting TCP/IP connections at the port, and that no firewall is blocking TCP/IP connections to the port.”