Pinnacle Insights

Is your organization managing multiple projects or programs? Are you challenged with integrating all these projects into a cohesive picture for senior management? Are you having trouble juggling project priorities and allocating resources to meet competing demands? Do you feel you need an integrated, consistent framework for project planning and control across your organization?

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.

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.  

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".

Pinnacle has been guiding and assisting our clients in implementing and improving Enterprise Project Management Offices (ePMOs) for over 25 years. 

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.