The 3 Must-Have Roles for Risk Management When you think of risk management, what springs to mind first? For many people, it’s something like a risk discussion on a project aimed at uncovering risks or a log of project risks. Perhaps you think of a process for managing risk on projects. Whatever comes to mind […]
How To Get Your PMO Involved in Strategic Discussions
How To Get Your PMO Involved in Strategic Discussions How many times have you been in a meeting and felt you didn’t have the whole picture? Whether it’s a reference to a strategic decision, new plans for transformative change or something about the business landscape – it’s clear that they knew something that you didn’t. […]
Modeling Concrete Cure in Microsoft Project While Maintaining a Continuous Critical Path
There are two well-known ways to model concrete cure time in Microsoft Project. But both ways may generate critical path discontinuities is certain situations. The first way to model the concrete cure time in Microsoft Project is as an elapsed time lag. This works well to model the continuous nature of concrete curing through the […]
How To Use External Dependencies In Primavera P6
It is not uncommon that you have two, or more, different projects that you want to connect together using external dependencies in P6. In certain scenarios you may find yourself with a project that is affected by another external project. You most likely want to link the projects together to model the inter-dependency between these […]
Deltek Acumen Risk and Activity Duration Uncertainty
Deltek Acumen Risk provides an efficient way to account for activity duration uncertainty in your schedule. All projects come with some level of risk. It’s the reality that besets the art and science of scheduling. And even a schedule with very few identifiable risks still has a degree of uncertainty in the duration estimates. Most […]
Critical Path Breaks
A typical schedules critical path should consist of a continuous sequence of activities from project start or status date to the finish milestone. If not, your schedule may have critical path breaks and need review. An unbroken and continuous critical path from project start to project finish is an important characteristic of a quality schedule. […]
Deltek Cobra 8.2 is Here
Deltek offer a strong start to 2018 with their latest Deltek Cobra 8.2 release. Yes folks the rumors are true, Deltek released a new version of Cobra back in December of 2017, and it’s a point release meaning there are some terrific new toys under the hood. Deltek Cobra 8.2 offers over a dozen software enhancements […]
How to Display 4 Baselines on the Gantt Chart in Primavera P6
To better understand how your Primavera P6 Professional project schedule is progressing over time, you may want to display several baselines on the Gantt chart. In a previous blog, we demonstrated how to display two baselines on the Gantt chart which you can read here Primavera P6 Displaying Two Baselines on the Gantt Chart. In […]
Deltek Releases PM Compass 8.1
Last week, Deltek released its latest version of PM Compass 8.1. There are some welcome new features, particularly for Primavera P6 users, which includes improved integration with P6. Let’s take a look at what’s in this release for you. Primavera P6 Integration PM Compass 8.1 now supports Primavera P6 as a scheduling tool for entering […]
Avoiding Schedule Risk
All schedules come with risk, so learning to address some of the more common risks associated is an important step to their mitigation. Your scope may very well be attainable, but your schedule may transform your otherwise reasonable project into an inevitable failure. Sources of schedule risk include multiple critical paths, multiple predecessor dependencies, procrastinating […]