One of our Practice Leaders, Gary Harvey, presented to corporate business leaders and industry experts various best practices for improving their chances of winning contracts and getting projects off on the right foot. Gary provided strategies for using Earned Value Management planning methods and Deltek tools to streamline the proposal development and contract negotiation processes, resulting in valuable savings of upfront time and financial investment during the sales cycle.
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PMO Best Practices: How to Build a Strategic Enterprise PMO
Categories: Aerospace & Defense, Energy, Utilities, Oil & Gas, Engineering & Construction, Earned Value Management (EVM), Enterprise Project Controls (EPC), Integrated Program Management (IPM), Technology, Project Portfolio Management (PPM), Deltek PPM, Oracle Primavera, Government & Public Sector, Training, Microsoft EPM, forProject Technology, Enterprise Project Management (EPM)
Is your Project Management Office (PMO) an effective and strategic entity that helps project managers across the organization? Traditionally, PMOs have been departmentally based and effective only within their own departments or silos of responsibility.
New Integrated Program Management Report (IPMR) Data Item Description (DID)
Categories: Integrated Program Management (IPM), Government & Public Sector
The new Integrated Program Management Report (IPMR) data item description, DI-MGMT-81861, that combines the existing Contract Performance Report (CPR) and the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) into a single report package, has now been officially released and will be employed on future contracts let in response to solicitations and requests for proposals issued after 1 July 2012.
Pinnacle implemented an investment and capacity planning process for use during Amerigroup’s annual portfolio budgeting for their IT group. Pinnacle also supported this effort by implementing an Enterprise Project Management System (Oracle Primavera).
The New Integrated Program Management Report (IPMR) Data Item Description to Be Released Soon
Categories: Aerospace & Defense, Earned Value Management (EVM), Integrated Program Management (IPM), Deltek PPM, Oracle Primavera, Government & Public Sector, Microsoft EPM, forProject Technology
A draft of this document was issued last fall and comments were solicited. Pinnacle consultants provided detailed comments and recommendations.
GAO Schedule Assessment Guide - Public Draft Released
Categories: Aerospace & Defense, Earned Value Management (EVM), Integrated Program Management (IPM), Government & Public Sector
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has published the exposure draft of the GAO Schedule Assessment Guide, Best Practices for Project Schedules. This is a companion to the GAO Cost Estimating Guide and will be used as both a best practices guide for scheduling across agencies, as well as a tool for GAO auditors to use to independently assess the adequacy and effectiveness of project schedules.
What Does Integrating Deltek Cobra and Microsoft Project Mean?
Categories: Aerospace & Defense, Earned Value Management (EVM), Integrated Program Management (IPM), Deltek PPM, Government & Public Sector, Microsoft EPM
Pinnacle has integrated Deltek Cobra and MS Project or MS Project Server for many US Government Agencies and Suppliers.
An Overview of EVMS forProject
Categories: Aerospace & Defense, Earned Value Management (EVM), Integrated Program Management (IPM), Government & Public Sector, forProject Technology
EVMS forProject is designed to manage projects both large and small, and to scale up to handle hundreds of projects and users in even the largest enterprises. It was designed from the ground up to work closely with
Microsoft Project Server (2007 and 2010) and SharePoint. It is unique among earned value management software in its ability to seamlessly synchronize schedule and resource data from Microsoft Project Server.
