Where are you in your schedule based upon planned performance? The Primavera P6 schedule % complete value specifies planned performance based on the baseline and current data date (DD). After creation of your schedule, including budget, and assignment of a baseline you will want to track
Primavera P6 Global and Project Calendars Explained
Global calendars are great, because they are available for multiple project schedules. But this advantage can be a double edged sword. Let’s take a look. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) review worksheet requires that calendars be defined at
Summarizing Projects in Primavera P6 Explained
After you have updated your schedule you have one more step before the changes are fully implemented in Primavera P6. You have to summarize your project. When you first open Primavera P6 in project view, you are presented with a list of projects. Unlike a file based system, however, you can view much more than the
How To Use External Dependencies In Primavera P6
It is not uncommon that you have two unique and separate projects that you want to connect together using an external dependency. In certain scenarios you may find yourself with a project that is affected by another external project. You most likely want to link the two projects together to model
How to Display 4 Baselines on the Gantt Chart in Primavera P6
To better understand how your Primavera P6 Professional project schedule is progressing over time, you may want to display several baselines on the Gantt chart. In a previous blog, we demonstrated how to display two baselines on the Gantt chart which you can read here
How To Shade Gantt Chart Time Periods In Primavera P6
Primavera P6 has a great feature for highlighting time periods on the Gantt chart without affecting the start and finish dates of schedule activities. The Gantt chart is at the heart of scheduling software. Knowing the many graphical features available for the Gantt chart in Primavera P6
How To Link FS Relationships Together In Primavera P6
Do you need to link multiple activities with Finish to Start (FS) relationships? Primavera P6 Professional provides a quick way to insert FS relationships between activities. Many scheduling guidelines prefer the FS relationship to connect activities. This tends to make FS relationships the most common fixture
Primavera P6 and Bad Weather Days
Is inclement weather a drag on your project schedule? Why not bake bad weather into your project schedule before it becomes a problem? Inclement weather is a common stressor on outdoor projects. Bad weather can cause unpredictable delays on projects that stretch days or even weeks. But how
Understanding Work Equation Units in Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project
What are the units of each variable in the work equation? These units differ depending on which scheduling tool you use. The work equation is an important concept in scheduling. The work equation specifies how you want the software to behave when adding additional resources to a schedule
Using Activity Network Layouts in Primavera P6
Primavera P6 Professional has a nice feature to position activities and relationships in a preferred network diagram layout and to capture this layout, so that it is retrievable. A network diagram is good at highlighting the true relationships between activities. The nature of these