Pinnacle Insights

Pinnacle Management successfully completed an EVMS implementation for the Consortium for Ocean Leadership located in Washington, DC.  The Consortium for Ocean Leadership is a DC-based nonprofit organization that represents more than 100 of the leading public and private ocean research and education institutions, aquaria and industry with the mission to advance research, education and sound ocean policy.  

Many clients have recently engaged Pinnacle to assist in refining their Earned Value Management processes and to update their Earned Value Management System toolset. Specific clients have selected Microsoft Project, Deltek Cobra and Deltek wInsight as their new EVM toolset. The EVMS will be integrated with SAP to gather actual costs.

Our experience and industry research indicates that it is significantly more effective to provide integrated Process and Tool training – rather than just let Project Managers and others struggle to map generic tool training to your real-world processes.   Read about the benefits of integrating process and tool training.

The art and science of applying financial portfolio management principles

Through growing acceptance of the advantages of a projectized approach to most all aspects of business, the benefits of a disciplined application of program and project portfolio management (PPM) disciplines have become apparent and are being widely employed in IT, energy, manufacturing, transportation other industries.  

MS Project Server 2003 to MS Project Server 2007

Since its less-than-user-friendly inception in 2003, Project Server has undergone some major and positive transformations, starting with the highly serviceable Project Server 2007 and the inception of Microsoft’s Enterprise Project Management (EPM) suite that introduced SharePoint as a key “baked-in” element.  

Small and mid-sized corporate users of Microsoft Project Server (MSP) are developing increasingly innovative ways to employ this collaborative technology in ways that extend far beyond its core project management-oriented focus.  

In the Public sector and Private sector, Pinnacle often uses Deltek Cobra as part of an Earned Value Management System.  In all cases Cobra must be integrated a scheduling tool: Microsoft Project (MSP), Microsoft Project Server or often Oracle Primavera.

The Microsoft Office Enterprise Project Management (EPM) solution is a collaborative project and portfolio environment based on Microsoft Project Professional, Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Project Server.  The entire solution is commonly referred to as "MS Project Server".