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Deltek Cobra – Microsoft Excel Schedule Data Import Best Practices

In the last of his four-part series on Deltek Cobra cost/schedule data sharing, SMA Senior Associate Alan Kristynik, PMP, looks at best practices for importing Microsoft Excel data

Estimating

Estimating Overview: Understanding the Range of Possible Outcomes

SMA Principal Associate Doug Plummer shows how using three-point estimate can be used to improve your confidence in bases of estimate (BOEs)

Schedule

Deltek Cobra – Open Plan Professional Schedule Data Import Best Practices

In part three of his four-part series on Deltek Cobra cost/schedule data sharing, SMA Senior Associate Alan Kristynik, PMP, looks at best practices for importing Deltek Open Plan data

Microsoft Word Style Separator

Microsoft Word: Run-on Headings and more using the Style Separator

Wordman (aka Dick Eassom CF APMP Fellow, SMA’s Vice President of Corporate Support) shows how to use Microsoft Word’s Style Separator to create perfect run-on headings and figure captions

Schedule

Deltek Cobra – Microsoft Project Professional Schedule Data Import Best Practices

In the second of his four-part series on Deltek Cobra cost/schedule data sharing, SMA Senior Associate Alan Kristynik, PMP, looks at best practices for importing Microsoft Project Professional data

Schedule

Deltek Cobra – Oracle Primavera P6 Schedule Data Import Best Practices

SMA Senior Associate Alan Kristynik, PMP, continues his series of articles on Deltek Cobra looking at best practices for importing Oracle Primavera P6 schedule data

Enterprise Change

Facilitating Enterprise Change

SMA Senior Proposal Manager Larry Tremmel discusses the steps necessary to make the changes necessary to allow your enterprise to flourish

Project Management

Client Project Management Process Overhaul

SMA Principal Associate Scott Keeney, PMP, describes how we re-established best practice project management processes within our client’s Project Management Office

Recommendation

Recommendations: One and Done or Invested?

When someone asks for your letter of recommendation, how do you track their progress and success? SMA Executive Advisor Anthony Rock asks if you invested or just involved in a small part of their process?

Lowest Price Technically Acceptable LPTA

Lowest Price, Technically Acceptable (LPTA)

Learn strategies for winning LPTA contracts through sustainable pricing, disciplined capture, and a balanced pipeline.

Fields

Deltek Cobra Advanced Calculated Fields

SMA Senior Associate Alan Kristynik, PMP, provides a tutorial on how to use Advanced Calculated Fields for Earned Value Management in Deltek Cobra

Accountability

Accountability and Control

Anthony Rock, Lt. Gen. US Air Force (Ret) and SMA Executive Advisor, continues his leadership articles with how to handle increasing accountability with decreasing control