A student at one of my Primavera P6 classes recently asked whether it is possible to assign multiple roles to a single resource. Let’s take a look at this. Primavera P6 Professional has roles that schedulers use to define specific trade skills, such as plumber, pipe fitter, or pipe insulator. These roles are stored in […]
Displaying a Window of Opportunity Gantt Chart Bar In Primavera P6 EPPM
How do you display a window of opportunity Gantt chart bar in Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM)? Let’s look at a simple example. Your project has a brief period of time when the inspector is onsite and available to perform a final quality assurance
Creating a WBS in Chart View in Primavera P6
Primavera P6’s chart view provides a nice hierarchical diagram of the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). It also has a great feature that allows you to create the WBS in the chart view? Here we show you how. Creating the WBS is an important first step in scheduling a Primavera P6 Professional project. One of the […]
Exporting A Primavera P6 Schedule without Costs
A customer recently asked how to provide a subcontractor a copy of a Primavera P6 cost loaded schedule, and not include the costs? In this situation, we have a subcontractor that needs to view the schedule to perform their work, but we do not want them to see any labor cost data or any other […]
Loading Equipment Costs in Primavera P6
A student recently asked how to cost load equipment in Primavera P6 that extends over multiple activities that may overlap. Let’s take a look. The cost of equipment is usually charged on an hourly or monthly basis. A piece of equipment may provide support for more than one deliverable effort and these deliverable efforts may overlap […]
Primavera P6 – MSSQL Database Not Configured for Background Jobs
Problem Description During a new setup of Primavera P6 Professional, the following error was encountered upon first logging in to the new MSSQL Server Database with the P6 Professional client: Error: The Database has not been configured to run background jobs. Reason This happens on MSSQL Server database instances because there is a stored procedure […]
Using Labor Roles in Primavera P6 EPPM
Labor roles are optional in Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM). It is possible to bypass labor roles and directly assign resources to activities, but many Primavera P6 EPPM users like to first assigns labor roles as place holders until later assignment of specific resources. Project managers typically do not want to involve themselves […]
How To Use Monthly Budgeted Project Costs In Primavera P6
A student recently asked how one can provide subcontractors and other stakeholders a monthly budgeted project cost for the life of the project. This information is readily acquired in Primavera P6. Subcontractors working on your project may want to know how much money they need to set aside monthly for project related costs. This monthly […]
Hiding Pay Rates In Primavera P6 EPPM
Sometimes organizations want to restrict pay rate information to a select few individuals that have a need to know. It is possible in Primavera Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) to hide labor pay rate data from unprivileged users. Primavera P6 EPPM has nice features for determining the budget of a project schedule. These budgeting schedule […]
Using Deadline Markers In Primavera P6 EPPM
Most projects have deadlines. And it is possible to display a deadline directly on the Gantt chart in Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) scheduling software. If you are looking for a way to measure progress towards a deadline using an activity