If you are submitting your P6 schedule to the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) be forewarned. They will require you to convert your schedule to a USACE SDEF format. And, the SDEF file format is very particular about how the schedule should be cost loaded. The USACE has a Quality Control System/Resident Management […]
Multiple Critical Paths in Microsoft Project
Microsoft Project has a great feature that allows you to display a critical path for each independent network of tasks within a project. This comes in handy when you want to display a schedule Contract Completion Date (CCD) milestone. Some scheduling guidelines require a separate milestone for the CCD. Schedulers in Microsoft Project can define […]
Developing P6 Calendars When Planning the Project
The development of Primavera P6 calendars for your project is a critical part of your schedule development effort. This is really part of the planning stage of developing your schedule. During the planning phase, the project team should be deciding what work periods they are allowed, or plan to use. Also, they should be determining […]
Deltek Cobra 8.2 Cumulative Update 12
Deltek has released Cumulative Update 12 for Deltek Cobra 8.2. Released on March 7th it contains a number of bug fixes, including some performance improvements where it matters which will be welcome news to all Deltek Cobra users. Let’s take a look at what’s in this release. New Enhancements The Validity Check tool gets a […]
Node Band Themes in Primavera P6 EPPM
Sometimes a little color makes all the difference. Let’s discuss setting a node band themes style and color features to make working in the Enterprise Project Structure view more efficient. Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) release 18.8 has an Enterprise Project Structure (EPS) data structure for organizing projects in a hierarchy. The EPS […]
Project Management and PMO Career Paths
PMO Career Paths – Options, Options, Options As a project manager, career paths are something you might spend a fair bit of time thinking about. Some businesses have formal job families for project and program-related careers. But many do not, and you are left to plan your own career and to work out what is […]
Deltek Acumen Risk and Tornado Charts
Great! Your Deltek Acumen risk exposure histogram graph displays the probability of completing the project by a specific date. But which activities then should be risk mitigated to shorten the schedule? For this information look to the tornado plot. Schedule risk analysis first and foremost is communicated in a histogram risk exposure graph. This graph […]
Primavera P6 EPPM Roles & Role Teams
Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) has roles that are specific trade skills and role teams that are trade skills organized in crews. Primavera P6 EPPM roles come in handy in scheduling when the project manager knows that task and required trade skill to complete the task, but not the actual person doing the […]
Deltek Cobra Monthly Reporting Cycle
In this article, I will be looking at a typical monthly reporting cycle and showing you a high level checklist that applies to almost every integrated Earned Value Management System (EVMS) I’ve had the pleasure of working on. For those of you who might be new to Deltek Cobra and the monthly reporting cycle, I […]
7 Risk Management Metrics to Track
7 Risk Management Metrics to Track We all know that managing risk across projects, programs and your entire portfolio, is important. Risk management is something that’s embedded into the way businesses are run and into project management methodologies. However, beyond the risk log, what kind of tracking do you do on risk? In this article […]