When you update your schedule relationships, how can you include those relationship changes in your existing baseline? The baseline is a static copy of the schedule and functions as a ruler to measure progress. Schedules can have multiple baselines; one should be created to show the entire schedule plan before any progress. Adding an activity […]
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What is a Half Step Delay Analysis and Why Should You Care?
Half Step Delay Analysis Explained Suppose you’re in a job role where you’re receiving monthly schedule updates, and it’s your job to report the specific reasons why the finish date slipped in that month. You have to account for delays that happened in the same timeframe, the impact of revisions to the schedule, and changes […]
Change the Font and Color of Your Primavera P6 Schedule
A P6 Professional user recently asked how to change the font and color of the bars or banners in the schedule. Here’s how you do it. In Primavera P6 Professional, it is possible to personalize your schedule. P6 has features for changing the color and font of your schedule to give it your own look. […]
How To Create a Critical Activity Indicator In Primavera P6
Create a Critical Activity Indicator in the Activity Table Identifying critical activities in your schedule is paramount in preventing delays that, if left unchecked, can ultimately de-rail your project. Although critical activities are displayed in the Gantt Chart, (typically with red Gantt chart bars) it not always easy keeping an eye on them, especially if […]
10 Things To Do After You Build Your Project Schedule
Lots of project managers put time into creating a great project schedule, either working with an in-house planner or an expert contractor. They end up with a brilliant, robust and integrated schedule in Oracle Primavera P6 or another equally good enterprise project management scheduling tool. But the work doesn’t stop there. After you have created […]
Excluding Activities from Metric Analysis Using Filters in Acumen Fuse
A client working with a ten thousand activity schedule asked how to efficiently exclude groups of these activities from metric analysis in Acumen Fuse. Here we show you how. Acumen Fuse supports a thorough schedule health check using diagnostics from the 300+ metrics that come standard with Acumen or other metrics developed by the user. […]
5 Ways to Stop the Planning Fallacy Disrupting Your Schedule
Does Planning Fallacy Affect Your Schedule? Have you ever thought you had plenty of time to complete a task… then suddenly the deadline looms and your calendar is blocked with other appointments and there is no time left? Have you ever scheduled time to complete a task and once you got started you realized you […]
Primavera P6 Level of Effort
An activity in Primavera that does not contribute directly to the production of a deliverable is typically scheduled as a P6 Level of Effort (LOE) task. Though an LOE activity does not produce any tangible deliverable it still expends resources against the project and requires cost loading and tracking. An LOE activity is also unique […]
P6 Activity Constraints and their Negative Impact on the Critical Path
The Negative Impact of P6 Activity Constraints The Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) says that no more than 5% of tasks in the schedule should have hard constraints. This can seem lenient to some, because even soft constraints in the schedule can cause major critical path discontinuities, which is problematic. The schedule should have one […]
Which is Better: Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project?
We are often asked which is better: Oracle Primavera P6 or Microsoft Project. That’s a hard question to answer because companies adopt both tools for different reasons and to serve different purposes – even though they are both known as professional, enterprise project management scheduling tools. How you are going to use them, what your […]