Sooner or later, you’ll need to hire staff for your PMO and need the relevant interview questions. Part of PMO implementation planning, is ensuring that you have enough staff to carry out the functions that are required. Many PMOs are created from internal team members who want to move across from project management into a […]
Using Finish On Or After Constraints In Primavera P6
The Primavera P6 Finish On Or After (FOOA) constraint supports situations when an event must occur either at the same time or before the completion of an effort. The start and finish of a project is comparable to the movement of a train. The train slowly gains speed until it reaches velocity. Likewise, the train […]
How to Check for High Float (and why you should)
Why should you check your schedule for high float? How good is the quality of your schedule? You may have spent a lot of time working out the tasks and dependencies with your team, entering it into your enterprise project management software, checking it over with stakeholders and so on… but how do you really […]
Deltek Cobra 8.2 – Productivity Gains You May Have Missed
Sometimes you don’t realize how good something is until you don’t have access to it. This is true in many walks of life, but today I want to talk about Deltek Cobra release 8.2. Just when you think it can’t get any better, they find a way to improve the tool. At the bottom of […]
Creating a Work Breakdown Structure in Primavera P6
Creation of the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is an important step in the scheduling process and here we show you how to create a WBS in Primavera P6 Professional. The WBS essentially is a hierarchical breakdown of all the project deliverables. A deliverable is an end product or service that the project is producing. In […]
Are You Struggling To Get Effective Training?
Here at Ten Six, we work with Program Managers across many different industries delivering effective training. The goal is to get themselves and, their PMOs, to the next level of performance. It also puts them in a position to take on greater challenges. We sometimes have the opportunity to work with clients where they have […]
Primavera P6 EPPM Duration Percent Complete Explained
When it comes to progressing your schedule, using Primavera P6 EPPM duration percent complete type is the most efficient way to enter schedule progress. If your project is a construction project where one can inspect the actual physical work accomplished at the job site then the physical percent complete type is the most accurate way […]
Brainstorming and Risk Management
Brainstorming is an important part of the opportunity and risk identification process. Apply brainstorming best practices for a more effective brainstorming effort. Project managers should consider opportunities and risks early on because the cost of mitigating an issue increases exponentially as the project matures. So project managers should front load their opportunity and risk management […]
Primavera P6 EPPM’s Work Breakdown Structure
Many project failures are traceable back to a poorly defined or even nonexistent Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) software supports the development of a quality WBS, which is important for project success. The P6 EPPM WBS is a deliverable-oriented grouping of project elements or, in other words, a breakdown […]
ISO 21500 Standards for Project Management
The ISO 21500 standards are developed by the International Standards Organization (ISO) headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. What many folks, in the project management community, may not realize is that the ISO 21500 standard for project management is actually a growing series of standards covering different elements of Project, Programme and Portfolio Management. Another important thing […]