5 Tips for Successful Status Meetings Meeting your project team or key stakeholders to discuss status is a critical part of managing a project. But everyone hates attending a meeting for the sake of it. Here are 5 tips for making your status meetings as good as possible, and completely painless. 1. Be Prepared It […]
Diverse Teams Mean Better Project Results
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got,” goes the saying. If you think in the same way as you always have, you will find it difficult to come up with new solutions to problems. Add a few new people to the project team, and you’ll have a […]
Deltek Releases Cobra 5.1 HotFix 7 – Build 5.01.303
Deltek has released Cobra 5.1 HotFix 7. Why all the excitement on the part of the Cobra Guy? Well with this gem comes the saving of your columns in the Projects view.
Deltek Release Cobra 5.1 Hotfix 6 build 5.01.298
It’s happened again folks, the end of the month brings us a new hotfix for Deltek Cobra. Deltek Cobra 5.1 5.01.298. It includes a fix that helps with integration and I’m particularly excited. That’s because they’ve fixed a problem with the integration wizard that’s been causing me a few headaches. In the good old days […]
What is an Integrated Baseline Review (IBR)?
An Integrated Baseline Review (IBR) may for some seem like an overwhelming event, particularly if your organization has never conducted one before. This is a common situation for commercial organizations that are venturing into the government contracting world or are now encountering
Who is The Cobra Guy?
You’ve been searching for months and now we are able to reveal, through the help of unnamed sources, the first bio for this enigma
Budget Versus Forecast
For an Earned Value Management (EVM) practitioner, the term ‘budget’ and the term ‘forecast’ have two very distinct meanings. However the terms are not always used in correct context, particularly in organizations that are new to earned value.
5 Tips to Improving EPM and EVM Training
Enterprise Project Management (EPM) and Earned Value Management (EVM) are sometimes consigned to the trash can of “good in theory, shame it didn’t work here.” After the hard work of implementation, lack of
WBS In An Integrated Earned Value Management System
In an integrated Earned Value Management System (EVMS), the contract Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is the hub upon which all things depend. Some organizations new to Earned Value Management
Earned Value Management Variance
There’s a lot of process and rigmarole involved in reporting variance as part of an Earned Value Management System (EVMS). We’ve witnessed many Control Account Managers (CAMs) trying to