Pinnacle Insights

Pinnacle Senior Consultant Michael Bensussen recently authored a three-part project management blog series. Due to the overwhelming success of the articles, I asked Michael to join me to dig deeper into the topics of time and money, schedule pressure and safety performance, and chaos and complexity.

I attended the May 25th Deltek Clarity webinar, Trends in Project and Risk Management, and as usual the content from the 12^th annual government study was compelling. Dan Firrincili, Sr. Manager, Product Marketing, and Kathy Boatwright, Sr. Director, Product Management, presented the findings for this section of the study.

I had the pleasure of having a very special guest, Tom Polen on a recent webinar to talk about rebooting your project reviews. For those of you that know Tom, you know that he always brings high energy in discussing all things project controls and project management, and this webinar was no exception.

‘Beyond Agility’ is the latest edition of Pulse of the Profession by the Project Management Institute (PMI). I always look forward to reading this report and learning about how organizations all over the world are maturing their project management organizations. I was especially excited to see what the data would show as we endured a global pandemic.

This blog article was previously posted on Tuesday, May 1st, 2018 and has been updated to provide readers the most up-to-date information.  

The Project Manager’s role is not an easy one. With so many moving parts and multiple people invested in project success, it is critical that Project Managers stay one step ahead of the game.  

There is a lot of research that identifies how poorly projects are managed. I’ve read that $99M is wasted for every $1B invested in project management.

One-third of all projects don’t meet their initial goal. So, what are some of the reasons for project failure?

In this article, I talk about five of the reasons that projects fail.

This article has been updated as of March 18, 2024 to provide more additional information.

The Department of Defense’s Integrated Program Management Data Analysis Report (IPMDAR) Data Item Description (DID) finalized in April of 2020 is a major change in DOD EVMS reporting. This replaces the earlier IPMR and CPR reporting requirements. 

I recently held a webinar where I spoke about three attributes that every Control Account Manager (CAM) must have to be successful. The CAM is vital to the successful delivery of on-time and on-budget projects. I often think of the CAM and project manager as similar roles, with the CAM having many of the same responsibilities of the PM but a smaller piece of the overall project.