Primavera P6 User Defined Fields are a great tool for expanding schedule management and analysis. User Defined Fields (UDFs) can be found in the Enterprise area drop down. Figure 1 – Enterprise Drop Down List with User Defined Fields Shown P6 User Defined Fields allow us to assign specific data types to activities. Personally, I […]
How Do We Handle Submittals in a P6 Schedule?
Submittals in a P6 Schedule? For your construction projects, I’m sure you typically detail out your planned work activities. All the work activities such as sitework, demolition, electrical rough-in, or mechanical system performance testing? What about submittals? I’m sure you develop a submittal register and track all your product data, shop drawings, and other specific […]
Updating a Primavera P6 Baseline Cost Curve in Excel
In my previous blog Creating a Simple Cost Curve in MS Excel Mar 2020, I explained how to create a Primavera P6 Baseline Cost Curve in Microsoft Excel. This article will explain how to easily update the cost for Actual Cost for the Progress Updates. This is how I typically keep my Primavera P6 baseline […]
Creating a Simple P6 Cost Curve in Microsoft Excel
Most schedule specifications require resource and cost loading. Usually, there is also a requirement to provide a cost curve. Primavera will produce a P6 cost curve, but you can also easily create one in Microsoft Excel. There is more than one way to accomplish this. I’ll describe the method I like to use here. I […]
Setting the Time and Date Settings In Primavera P6
It doesn’t sound like a big deal, but being sure the time and date settings for the Project Start date, Data Date, and actual activity dates are set in Primavera P6, can make the schedule report a scheduled finish date with date variance of +- a day. This can also force fractional durations and Total […]
Restricting Start-to-Start and Finish-to-Finish Relationships
Ban SS and FF Relationships? Recently, I’ve seen a couple of CPM schedule specifications which do not allow any Start-to-Start (SS), Finish-to-Finish (FF) relationships or relationship lags. I do not understand this complete abolishment of these schedule tools. I absolutely support limiting the use of SS and FF relationships, and relationship lags. The work being […]
Simple Critical Path Actual Performance Comparison
Do you review the actual performance of work that was driving the Critical Path at the start of this update period? Do you know if the Critical Path work for this update period was completed as planned, delayed, or maybe even completed ahead of schedule? Figure 1 – Current Update Critical Path The current progress […]
What is Driving the Critical Path?
What is Driving the Critical Path? Do you ever look at a pdf of the schedule and see multiple activities in-progress that are also showing as critical? Figure 1 – multiple in-progress activities shown on Critical Path How can this be? Critical Path Defined First, we need to know how the Critical Path is defined […]
Simple Method for Updating Progress in Primavera P6
There is a way to make updating progress in Primavera P6 for a construction project schedule (that is used by the contractor to report progress to the owner), simple. But you need the Primavera P6 schedule developed in a way that allows this easy process for updating progress in Primavera P6. The idea is to […]
Simple Lump Sum Cost Loading in Primavera P6
Simple Lump Sum Cost Loading in Primavera P6 Developing the basic Primavera P6 schedule with activities and logic is only the first step in creating a useful project schedule. Without some method of measuring actual progress against planned progress, the schedule doesn’t add the potential value it could if manhours, units, or cost are assigned […]