“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 […]
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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With increasing frequency, clients have been interested in learning how to migrate EVMS data from Deltek Cobra 4.7 to 5.0 with the lowest amount of risk. There are several things to consider before undertaking the migration. First, the best approach may depend on your current situation. If you have an in-progress program that has just
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