Deltek has just released Acumen Touchstone which is a great tool for automating the schedule submission process. Deltek Acumen Touchstone provides a web portal for the automated collection, scoring and benchmarking of project schedules. It’s central repository stores and evaluates schedules including updates and is able to automate reviews and approvals. Deltek Acumen Touchstone takes […]
The Construction CPM Conference 2020
The Construction CPM Conference 2020 will be held on January 19-22. This conference will offer a welcoming day on Sunday, January 19th followed by three full days of study and presentations and training at the Critical Path Method (CPM) and Schedule Analysis. The three major software and solutions providers; Deltek, Microsoft, and Oracle, will provide […]
How to Use the Dissolve Activities Feature in Primavera P6 EPPM
Deleting Activities Vs. the Dissolve Activities Feature in P6 EPPM There are many occasions, during the planning of a project, when schedulers have to make changes because the scope of work has changed and an activity is no longer required. Some users may just simply delete activities which no longer fit into the current project. […]
Freeze Forecast in Deltek Cobra
Freeze Forecast in Deltek Cobra is one of those scary sounding features that, until you spend a little time digging in to their purpose, you may not relish the idea of using. So what does it mean to freeze a forecast? I will get to that right after I go over some Deltek Cobra forecasting […]
5 PMO Soft Skills for 2020
PMO Soft Skills for 2020 We’re nearly at the end of 2019 and business leaders in all industries are asking themselves, “Where did the year go?” The final quarter is a crucial time for many organizations, as they manage the holiday season with employees off work, and the increased expectations from customers and the leadership […]
How to Adjust the Row Height in Microsoft Project
How to Adjust the Row Height in Microsoft Project Often schedulers have to adapt the presentation of their schedules in preparation for reporting to stakeholders. A common reason is to make them easier to read. Space on Gantt charts is usually sparse and as so, schedulers can be used to small row heights to itemize […]
What is Driving the Critical Path?
What is Driving the Critical Path? Do you ever look at a pdf of the schedule and see multiple activities in-progress that are also showing as critical? Figure 1 – multiple in-progress activities shown on Critical Path How can this be? Critical Path Defined First, we need to know how the Critical Path is defined […]
Does Your Business Manage These 3 Types of Risk?
3 Types of Risk you Should be Managing! We often meet managers who have a solid understanding of the concept of risk, and enterprise risk management, but who have a narrow view of what risk actually is. For them, risks are bad. They represent things that could go wrong. Risks should be managed out of […]
Model Weekly Project Meetings in Primavera P6
Weekly project meetings that require the broad attendance of resources, will incur costs that are not always measured. Modelling weekly project meetings in Primavera P6 can be done quite easily, as a Level Of Effort (LOE) activity. LOE activity in Primavera P6 has been designed for representing work which does not directly contribute to the […]
How to Use Work Products and Documents in Primavera P6
Primavera P6’s Work Products and Documents feature enable schedulers’ to catalog and keep track of all project-related documents and deliverables. When a project commences there are typically a variety of documents associated with it. For example, in the planning stages, there will be safety standards, design templates, associated guidelines, blueprints, work schedules, and manuals to […]