We recently held a very popular webinar titled “Introducing Earned Value Management and CloudEVM” delivered by Ten Six’s own Tim Boatwright and Mark Tillema from IMC the creators of CloudEVM. We discussed some of the recent changes in the Earned Value world as well as talking about what an EVMS (Earned Value Management System) looks […]
Planning and Earned Value in an Agile Environment – Free Webinar
Ten Six will be jointly presenting with Deltek a free 1 hour Webinar on Planning and Earned Value in an Agile Environment. Our own Tim Boatwright will be discussing how to integrate Agile development into an Earned Value Management (EVM) reporting environment. He will also cover things to watch out for when implementing Earned Value […]
A Statistical Approach to Estimating
Scheduling tools are only as good as the activity duration and cost estimates entered into them. Accurate estimating of these elements is therefore imperative for creating a schedule that is realistic. This article discusses the principles and approaches to aid the project manager’s attempt to accurately estimate the duration and/or cost of a project. One […]
Understanding the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
If you are confused about what is involved in creating a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), you are not alone. Come along as we define the WBS and look at some of the nuances in WBS terminology. One of five keys to project success is to have agreement among stakeholders on the goals or end product […]
Integrating CloudEVM with Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project
Integrating CloudEVM with Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project For those contractors who have an Earned Value Management (EVM) requirement on their contract, you may have had the experience of gathering data from different business systems that do not easily align. The time-consuming process of merging data cannot only be frustrating but it can also produce […]
Schedule Time Buffers
In the world of project management, things go wrong! This is an inherent characteristic of schedules. This is why good project managers will list and track risks associated with activities and the project. Still, it is difficult to find all the risks that may be hidden within the project schedule. This is why some project […]
Using Management Reserve (MR)
This is the third in a series of three articles about Management Reserve written by EVM SME Mark Infanti. You can read the previous two articles on this subject here; Management Reserve Defined and Estimating Management Reserve (MR). Now we have defined what it is and discussed how it is estimated. Now we need to […]
Questions You Should Ask When Implementing A PMO
Implementing a Project Management Office (PMO) is often not as simple as it might seem. As noted in this article, politics, organizational dynamics, history, personalities, etc. often come into play. When a client asks us to help “right the ship” of a struggling PMO implementation, one of the first things we want to understand, is […]
Estimating Management Reserve (MR)
This is the second in a series of three articles about Management Reserve written by EVM SME Mark Infanti. You can read the first article Management Reserve Defined here. FAR 31.205-7 (c), defines contingency as a possible future event or condition arising from presently known or unknown causes, the outcome of which is indeterminable at […]
Why Schedule Risk Analysis is a Good Idea
Our friends at Barbecana submitted this interesting article explaining why Schedule Risk Analysis is a good idea. The Value As part of the project management process, a project schedule will be defined, typically using the Critical Path Method (CPM) technique, that identifies the activities (tasks) that need to be performed to fulfill the project objectives, […]