Project Management Guides
Why you should simulate every delay before accepting it
A delay request is a negotiation, and the side with better information wins. Delay simulation gives you that information in minutes, not days.
The Depentra blog
Field notes on delivery
Dependency thinking, slack and slip in practice, and what we learn from the programs running on Depentra.
FeaturedBusiness Analysis
The hidden cost of invisible dependencies
Most program delays are not caused by the task that slipped. They are caused by the four tasks downstream nobody knew were connected. Here is how to make dependencies visible before they hurt.
Budget Management
Earned value metrics without the pain: CPI, EAC, and friends
CPI below 0.8? Your program is quietly overspending. A plain-English tour of the earned value metrics every program manager should watch.
Case Studies
Running a hypercare period that actually works
Go-live is the start, not the finish. How one retail bank structured 30 days of hypercare with daily stability metrics and got to steady state a week early.
Project Management Guides
Five critical path mistakes that quietly wreck programs
The critical path is not a report you run once at planning. It moves every week, and these five mistakes are how teams lose track of it.