Deleting Activities Vs. the Dissolve Activities Feature in P6 EPPM There are many occasions, during the planning of a project, when schedulers have to make changes because the scope of work has changed and an activity is no longer required. Some users may just simply delete activities which no longer fit into the current project. […]
Model Weekly Project Meetings in Primavera P6
Weekly project meetings that require the broad attendance of resources, will incur costs that are not always measured. Modelling weekly project meetings in Primavera P6 can be done quite easily, as a Level Of Effort (LOE) activity. LOE activity in Primavera P6 has been designed for representing work which does not directly contribute to the […]
How to Use Work Products and Documents in Primavera P6
Primavera P6’s Work Products and Documents feature enable schedulers’ to catalog and keep track of all project-related documents and deliverables. When a project commences there are typically a variety of documents associated with it. For example, in the planning stages, there will be safety standards, design templates, associated guidelines, blueprints, work schedules, and manuals to […]
Restrict Access to Cost Information in Primavera P6 EPPM
How to Restrict Access to Cost Information in Primavera P6 EPPM Sometimes companies need to restrict access to cost information to a select few, for example, pay rates. So how does Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) hide labor pay rates from all schedulers? After all, Primavera P6 schedulers need to access labor rates […]
Draw Relationships in the Gantt Chart in Primavera P6
How to draw and edit relationships in the Gantt Chart The Gantt chart is at the center of most scheduling software, where analysis by schedulers and the project team takes place. The Gantt chart is popular as it offers a visual display of how a project is progressing instead of a lot of text and […]
What Are Resource Codes in Primavera P6?
Resource codes in Primavera P6 Professional give you the option to group and sort within Resource Assignments. They can help you organize, group, sort, and filter data. You can set up roles with specific skill sets, which can be used as resource assignments. You can also assign costs per unit for all these resources, which […]
Changing Column Headings, Fonts and Colors in Primavera P6
There are multiple reasons why schedulers may want to change the column headings in the Activity chart. They may want to modify the names in the column headings to gain more column width so that they can compress the column to gain more space in the table. Or, they may want to personalize the column […]
What’s the Difference Between Total Float and the Longest Path?
Primavera Professional P6 supports a couple of options when schedulers want to define a critical activity in the Gantt chart; Total Float or the Longest Path. So, what’s the difference between these two? Total Float is the total amount of time that a schedule activity may be delayed from its early start date without delaying […]
Mitigating Resource Over-Allocation In P6 By Reducing Daily Effort
There are several ways to mitigate resource over-allocation in Primavera P6. Let’s look at alleviating resource over-allocation by reducing daily effort of the resource in question. You may have a schedule with accurate activity duration estimates and sound logic. However, if your resources are over-allocated your schedule is not realistic. Yes, when resources are stretched […]
Using Bar Labels in Primavera P6
Primavera P6 Professional offers numerous options for using Bar Labels in the Gantt chart. Some of the labels are predefined by Primavera P6 but there are also multiple ways to customize your own bars to when displaying activities in your Gantt chart. Here’s a closer look at how to do this. To access Bars, click […]