When you are assessing your schedule’s quality, there are typically activities that you want to exclude from the analysis so they don’t cloud the results. You might have some activities that represent work your customer is going to do for example. You wouldn’t assign resources to this work (skews Normal Tasks with No Resource metric). […]
How Do You Manage Data In Deltek Acumen?
Deltek Acumen’s file structure is built around three levels of files. Each subsequent level rolls up to the parent level. By maintaining that structure you are able to quickly work with, assess and share data. The top level is called the Workbook. This is the heart of Acumen’s data maintenance and works just like a […]
Deltek Cobra and Variance Fields
Setting up variance fields in Deltek Cobra to track, analyze, and report variances is done at the beginning of the project set up. Deltek Cobra will allow you to define the negotiated variance thresholds, identify trends, run format 5 reports and even maintain the prior month’s variance analysis within Cobra for future reporting. Setting up […]
How to Setup Deltek Cobra to Recognize the “AND” in Thresholds
Using “AND” Thresholds instead of “OR” in Deltek Cobra When setting up a contract in Deltek Cobra, it is important to hammer out the reporting thresholds for variance reports. Most of the time the customer will provide this, but sometimes it is left open to be negotiated. Key with threshold definition is the inclusion of […]
3 Things To Do To Get More Out Of Deltek Cobra Reporting
Do you want to get more out of the Deltek Cobra reporting capabilities? Deltek Cobra is a mature, incredibly capable Earned Value engine. As such, it has a ton of capabilities and other tools you could be using right now. How much are you really taking advantage of? This is true of the Microsoft Office […]
How To Run Deltek Cobra 8 and Cobra 5 On The Same PC
When a new release of Deltek Cobra comes out, it can be challenging to just simply try it out without a test machine. As with any version of software, bugs can be an issue. So far in my early use of Deltek Cobra 8.0, I have not run into any bugs, however, it’s always a […]
How to Update Budget/Forecast Details in Cobra Project Details Screen
One of the new capabilities Deltek Cobra 8 offers its users, is the easier interface and updating capabilities in the Project Details screen. Here we will walk you through cutting and pasting the time phased forecast details to excel and back into Deltek Cobra 8 for updating budget and forecast. Under the projects Navigation pane […]
Deltek Cobra 8 New Project View
The Deltek Cobra 8 new project view takes a huge step forward towards ease of use. The two biggest take-aways from the new project view are: You can see multiple resource assignments at one time on the screen (you use to have to run a report). You can interact directly with the data through the […]
Deltek Cobra 8 What’s New – Code Tab
With the release of Deltek Cobra 8, there is finally a way to easily leverage the powerful coding capability in Cobra using the new Code Tab. The ability to assign codes in Cobra has been around a while, but the full impact of this capability has been muted because working with coding (assigning reporting attributes […]
Ten Six Announces New Deltek Cobra 8 Training Classes
With the release of Deltek Cobra 8 today, we are pleased to announce a free of charge and updated Cobra training classes. This release brings many changes and new features, particularly with the user interface, that we have previously written about that you can read here. This release is available today and existing users with […]