When do you apply hard or soft constraints in Primavera P6? This is a question I had recently while working with a client and while there are no hard and fast rules as project specific circumstances can differ, here are some guidelines that may help. Many times the project schedule is influenced by certain
5 Project Tracking Tools
How do you track your projects? Maybe you have a list of the 5 most significant milestones on your project reports and track progress against them each month. Maybe you go for the ‘gut feel’ approach. You can be a bit more scientific with how you
Full Monte 2014 for P6 Version 1.1 Now Supports SQLite
Barbecana has announced the immediate availability of Full Monte 2014 for P6 version 1.1. This update to Full Monte for P6 schedule risk analysis supports the new Primavera P6 8.4 release from Oracle. One of the changes with Primavera P6 Professional R8.4
Options for Earning Value in Deltek Cobra
While most of us use the default Earn Value by: Budget option for calculating earned value in Cobra, it is useful to have a good grasp of how the other options function. One option may be more appropriate in certain situations than another, so it’s good to have some general understanding of
Primavera P6: Showing Relationship Arrows between Schedule Activity Bars and Not Baseline Bars
In a training class last week, one attendee asked how to switch the relationship arrows from connecting the baseline bars to connecting the current progressing schedule activity bars. Once the project has been baselined and progress has been entered, you will notice that the relationship
Full Monte – Latin Hypercube Hype (Part II)
In Part I on this subject, we saw the real benefit of LHS for a one-task network. Now we will try to extend the benefit to two tasks, and then to life-size problems.
Full Monte – Latin Hypercube Hype (Part I)
From time to time we get asked why Full Monte does not support Latin Hypercube Sampling (“LHS”). This is a fancy name for a technique intended to improve the accuracy obtained from a given number of iterations of a Monte Carlo simulation model, but in fact the benefits
How To Downgrade Internet Explorer (IE) 11 to IE 10 Or Earlier
For companies implementing Oracle Primavera P6 Enterprise Portfolio Project Management (EPPM) R8.3.2 or earlier, you will need to downgrade your user base to IE 10. P6 EPPM is not supported and doesn’t work with IE 11. Whatever your reasons for needing to downgrade, the following steps show
Primavera P6 EPPM Tested Configurations and Other Documents
In the more recent releases of Oracle Primavera P6, the documentation media package zip file no longer contains documentation. All you will find is one document entitled ‘where_to_get_documentation.pdf’.
Primavera P6 Professional R8.4 Standalone Installation Overview
With the release of Primavera P6 revision 8.4, you now have the option to run the Professional client as a standalone configuration using the SQLite database as its data repository. This has made the installation of standalone Primavera P6 Professional clients quicker and easier for everyone, whether or not your