Accommodate Bad Weather in Primavera P6 Unless you are working indoors, the weather is always a consideration when building a construction schedule. Somehow, inclement weather must be addressed for any work which is impacted by it. So what do we do? Based on historical data and current forecasts, a Project Manager can plan with a degree […]
Oracle Releases Primavera P6 Version 20.6 for Cloud Members
Oracle has released Primavera P6 version 20.6 to its Cloud Members. Companies using Primavera P6 EPPM Oracle Cloud enjoy regular releases and updates to the product. These are generally released every month or so and eventually become available as an update nearer the end of the year to those customers that have on premise installations. […]
How to Backup Primavera P6 Baselines
How to Backup Primavera P6 Baselines Many Primavera P6 databases become cluttered with a myriad of items, ranging from old redundant codes to more copies of projects than are ever required in anyone’s lifetime. Whilst updating a project weekly, you may be required to keep a snapshot every time you use the ‘Maintain Baseline’ feature […]
Importing XLSX Expense Costs into Primavera P6 Professional
Importing XLSX Expense Costs into Primavera P6 Microsoft Excel is often used as a platform for the organization of project data, and XLSX data files can import to Primavera P6 Professional. This makes these XLSX Microsoft Excel spreadsheets a suitable intermediary between project team members and Primavera P6 Professional. In most organizations, only a few […]
Video: Exploring the Primavera P6 EPPM Projects Tab
We recently published an article on the Primavera P6 EPPM Projects Tab that you can read here. Several folks have contacted us wanting to know some more about the project tab and the pages associated with it, so we’ve produced a short video where you can get a feel of the capabilities and functionality of […]
Fix Primavera P6 Reporting Challenges with Adrega Project Intelligence
Primavera P6 is a powerful project management tool. However, having an enterprise-grade project management system is made more useful by being able to do detailed reporting using Adrega Project Intelligence. Primavera P6 has built-in options for reporting, but experienced users aren’t always able to get what they need from the system. Have you felt like […]
Create a Portfolio in Primavera P6 EPPM
If you are responsible for multiple projects, then you can group these projects and create a portfolio in Primavera P6 EPPM. The projects could be grouped by type for example, in construction you may have Electrical and Engineering as one group of projects, Energy as another and Manufacturing as another. All of these can make […]
How to Create an S-Curve in Primavera P6 Professional
Here’s a look at how you can create an S-Curve in Primavera P6 Professional. S-curves are great graphical project management tools for project planning and measuring project performance. They can show the progress of work over time and form a historical record of project trends and variations. An s-curve helps monitor the success of a […]
Using the Progress Spotlight in Primavera P6 EPPM
The Progress Spotlight feature in Primavera P6 EPPM offers schedulers the opportunity to create look ahead reports and highlight upcoming activities in a project. It allows consistent project controlling and reporting, focusing on activities scheduled for a defined period. This can be the upcoming week, the next two weeks, month or quarter depending on the […]
The Progress Line in Primavera P6 Explained
Primavera P6 Professional has a feature called the Progress Line, which allows you to quickly view the status of your project by comparing actual progress with the Baseline. It offers a vertical, visual representation between a selected activity criterion. An example could be, the start or finish dates of current activities in a project against […]