Primavera P6 has three options for handling relationships when scheduling progressed activities. They are particularly important to understand when tasks progress out-of-sequence. Sometimes activities are performed out-of-sequence. This is when a successor activity begins before its predecessor is fully completed. The classic example is a predecessor and successor connected by a finish-to-start (FS) relationship, where […]
Using The P6 WBS Summary Task to Specify a Lump Sum Cost
Using The P6 WBS Summary Task Your subcontractor agrees to produce a deliverable for a fixed price or lump sum cost. How can you assign this cost to the respective deliverable in your Primavera P6 schedule? Let’s take a look. Typically, a scheduler assigns resources (labor, material, and equipment) to task efforts. The cost of […]
Primavera P6 22.12 Additional Activities View New Feature
Oracle’s P6 release 22.12 includes a feature, ‘Additional Activities View’, that Oracle says can “view projects side-by-side”. Let’s take a look at this. Oracle recently released their yearly Primavera P6 update with several new features. One addition that read like it would be helpful is the “view projects side-by-side” feature. The Oracle Primavera P6 Cumulative […]
P6 Professional 22.12 is Released by Oracle
What has now become a regular cadence for Oracle, Primavera P6 Professional 22.12 has just been released right at the end of December. So, we start the New Year with a few nice new features and improvements and have listed below the complete list included in this P6 Professional 22.12 release. P6 Professional is a […]
Transferring Weekly and Cumulative P6 Budget Data to Excel
Need to know how to transfer the P6 Professional Activity Usage Spreadsheet, which can include the project weekly and cumulative P6 budget data to Excel? Let’s take a look. Knowing the weekly and cumulative budget helps project managers plan for the ongoing costs of the project and confirm the total budget. In the following blog, […]
What is a Hammock Activity?
What is a Hammock Activity? Hammocks… is the first thing that comes to mind a beautiful sandy beach, dotted with palm trees and fabric slung between them? Or perhaps you picture a forest setting, with your bed for the night hung between two majestic tree trunks? If you are a project professional, you’re likely to […]
P6 Cost Loaded LOE Tasks and EVM Metrics
We received the following question regarding P6 and Level of Effort (LOE) activities: “Will cost loaded LOE tasks still be allowed to be included in the Earned Value Management (EVM) metrics out of P6.” Let’s take a look at this. There was a more a specific question that followed. Will the cost loaded LOE activities […]
P6 Professional System Administration and Project Data User Privileges
Primavera P6 Professional system administration allows you to restrict user data privileges within the Enterprise Project Structure (EPS), which is P6’s file structure system, and the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). Let’s take a further look. System Administrators in P6 Professional define Project Security privileges and assign them to differing levels of the Organizational Breakdown Structure […]
Primavera P6 Asterisk on Date Explained
What is the P6 Asterisk on Date? Have you spotted some characters appearing in your date columns in Oracle Primavera P6 and you’re wondering what they are? Here’s a quick explanation of what the characters appended to your Start and Finish date columns mean. Spoiler: they are helpful notices from the software intended to surface […]
P6 Activity Constraints and their Negative Impact on the Critical Path
The Negative Impact of P6 Activity Constraints The Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) says that no more than 5% of tasks in the schedule should have hard constraints. This can seem lenient to some, because even soft constraints in the schedule can cause major critical path discontinuities, which is problematic. The schedule should have one […]