Maintaining Cost and Resource Estimates throughout the Pre- and Post-Award Lifecycle
SMA Senior Associate Ron Wadlinger discusses how to maintain your cost and resource estimates through the project lifecycle: from pre-proposal to closeoutSeptember 15, 2020
Is It Really a “Must Win”?
SMA Principal Associate Danny Long shows how an opportunity can only be a “must win” if specific criteria of staffing, resources, and budget are metSeptember 3, 2020
Deltek Cobra – Replace Resources Best Practices
In this article, SMA Senior Associate Alan Kristynik, PMP, looks at Deltek Cobra’s Replace Resource process to replace a single resource with another or to merge resources to a single resourceSeptember 1, 2020
Microsoft Word: Dummy Text
If you want people to see how your new Word template will look with text, you’ll need some easily-insertable dummy text. Wordman (aka Dick Eassom, CF APMP Fellow, our Vice President of Corporate Support), shows you how to do itAugust 31, 2020
Deltek Cobra – Slip Best Practices
SMA Senior Associate Alan Kristynik, PMP, continues his masterclass on Deltek Cobra by showing how to use the Slip feature to change the project start dateAugust 27, 2020
Microsoft Teams vs. Microsoft Office: When Shortcut Keys Clash
Following an unexpected problem during a virtual training event using Microsoft Teams, Wordman (aka Dick Eassom, CF APMP Fellow, our Vice President of Corporate Support), examines when Teams keyboard shortcuts conflict with the app you’re sharingAugust 26, 2020
Strategy, Planning, and Tactics: Why Business Projects Fail
SMA Principal Associate Dan Harrison shows that incomplete strategic development leading to poor operational planning can cause business projects to failAugust 25, 2020
10 Million Steps to South America with SMA
On 20 August 2020, the SMA Headquarters team logged 10 million steps as part of our virtual tour of Central and South America, from our HQ in Irvine, California, all the way to Tierra del FuegoAugust 24, 2020
Deltek Cobra – Align Time-Phased Dates Process Best Practices
SMA Senior Associate Alan Kristynik, PMP, continues his masterclass on Deltek Cobra, this time looking at how to use the Align Time-Phased Data tool, useful for getting calendars in syncAugust 17, 2020
Microsoft Word: The Secret to Perfect Table Bullets
In his latest article, Wordman (aka Dick Eassom, CF APMP Fellow, our Vice President of Corporate Support), shows you how to make perfect bullets in Microsoft Word tables.August 11, 2020
Deltek Cobra – Top Down Planning Process Best Practices
SMA Sr. Associate Alan Kristynik, PMP, looks at Deltek Cobra Top Down Planning process, which can also be useful for proposal phase Cost Volume preparationAugust 6, 2020
Deltek Cobra – Rolling Wave Calendar Best Practices
SMA Senior Associate Alan Kristynik, PMP, examines the best practices for using the Rolling Wave calendar process in Deltek Cobra.August 3, 2020
