In P6 Professional, you can display total float on the Gantt Chart in both numerical and graphical forms. Let’s take a look. The Gantt chart, at its core, is a visual representation of the project, listing tasks vertically and time intervals for these tasks horizontally. I always tell students that the Gantt chart is the […]
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Primavera P6 EPPM 25.12 has been released by Oracle for on-premise users. If your P6 installation is hosted with Oracle, then you have enjoyed these features being released over the year with monthly updates. For on-premise installations, we typically get the cumulation of all the features in one big end of year release, hence Primavera
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P6 Professional 25.12 was released in late December 2025. In keeping with past years release cadence, Oracle released an update to P6 Professional. Here’s a look at what the new features are in P6 Professional 25.12 and some of the bugs that have been addressed. P6 Professional 25.12 – New features Improved Flexibility and Control
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How does a scheduler add curtains for holiday shutdowns on the Gantt chart? Let’s take a look. Schedulers can add curtains to the Gantt chart to display non-working periods that document delays caused by permits, other external dependencies and holiday shutdowns. These curtains are static and do not affect task start and finish dates. They
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In P6 Professional, two operations you want handy are refresh data and saving your changes. Let’s take a look at this. There are a few instances in P6 Professional when you will not see the effects of your operation on the screen until you refresh the screen. There is a button for refreshing the screen
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In this article, we look at activity resource assignment reporting in P6. P6 Professional can generate a report of resource assignments and their associated tasks to examine the attributes of these assignments. Often, project managers will shorten critical tasks by adding resources to speed up production. To support this effort, the scheduler must create a
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Task progress can be tabulated in the activity table using the schedule % complete and activity % complete columns as well as being displayed on the Gantt chart. Let’s take a look. The Gantt chart has a baseline bar (usually yellow), like a static ruler, to measure progress against the plan on the Gantt chart.
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How do we efficiently add resources to shorten a project already in process? Let us discuss. It is common for project managers to use the global change tool when overseeing a project in progress and behind schedule to add resources so that the work can be completed on time. This is known as crashing the
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You should rebaseline after a scope update, to show the remaining work matching each task’s new start and finish dates. Let’s take a look at this. Updates to your original plan are inevitable. P6 Professional supports the scheduling of these changes and helps you provide an updated baseline to measure schedule progress moving forward. But
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Here we are examining the factors affecting predecessor and successor task correlation in Primavera P6. We were recently contacted by a scheduler who was confounded that entering a predecessor’s task’s actual start and finish dates earlier than planned did not affect its successor’s start date. How do we explain this mystery? Barring any activity constraints,
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