Getting the best out of Deltek Cobra 5
Duration: 2 days
Prerequisites: A basic grasp of earned value management principles is useful. Apart from that, the only thing you need is an interest in learning new skills.
Who this course is for: Project Support Officers, Project Managers, Tool Specialists, Analysts, Systems Administrators.
The course provides a detailed introduction to using Deltek Cobra® 5.0. We’ll explain how this software supports earned value management (EVM) in the real world. You will learn how to set up Cobra to suit your environment, how to manage integration with the project’s master schedule and how to meet ANSI 748 standards through the tool.
The consultants delivering this course have years of experience working with and implementing Cobra as part of EVM systems. And they wrote the course too. Ask them anything!
Course summary
- Cobra 5.0 overview
- Navigating in Cobra 5.0
- Setting up a new program with WBS, OBS, calendars and codes
- Setting up and managing resources
- Setting up and calculating rates
- Creating the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) in Microsoft Project
- Loading budgets into the IMS in Cobra
- Using Level of Effort
- A walkthrough of the monthly update cycle
- Calculating earned value
- Forecasting
- Running EVM reports
- Errors and warnings using actual costs
Call Kinley Consulting today to find out more or to book a place on this course.