When generating Activity IDs and describing Activity Names in Primavera P6 Professional, there are best practices that make for a better, more efficient, and understandable schedule. Understanding the proper convention for Activity IDs and descriptions for Activity names in P6 Professional is essential. You will often have to interface with the Activity IDs and Activity […]
Primavera P6 EPPM Baseline Update
P6 EPPM Baseline Update When a Primavera P6 EPPM (Enterprise Project Portfolio Management) baselined and progressed schedule requires additional scope, how do you include new activities in its baseline? Let’s take a look. The baseline is a static copy of the schedule that serves as a ruler for measuring progress. You can make an existing […]
Primavera P6 Professional Group By – Quick Tip
Primavera P6 Professional is about displaying project deliverables and associated tasks in the activity table area, but this requires the proper table Group By settings. Let’s show you how. After one of our P6 Professional Fundamentals classes, a student asked if I could walk him through entering deliverables and associated tasks in P6 Professional on […]
Baseline Fundamentals in Primavera P6
A recent question from a user asked us to write a blog clarifying the difference between the project and the primary baseline. Here we explain the baseline fundamentals in Primavera P6 and how they work. The baseline in P6 functions like a ruler. A ruler is a straight strip marked at regular intervals to measure […]
Applying Activity Contingency Reserve in Primavera P6
P6 Professional Global Change tool can assign a risk level to each task and later apply a contingency reserve to adjust the task duration based on that respective risk factor. Task duration estimates may include the following considerations: Activity Attributes: description, resources, and dependencies. Activity Resource Requirements: required daily effort, availability, and skill level. Project […]
Primavera P6’s Schedule Comparison Feature Explained
The Schedule Comparison feature in Primavera P6 Visualizer is great for comparing the differences between two projects or a project and its baseline. As a quick side note, Schedule Comparison used to be run as a separate P6 utility called Claim Digger. The Schedule Comparison utility in Primavera P6 Professional allows us to compare the […]
Multiple Float Paths in P6
How do you display multiple float paths in P6 to provide a more complete view of the probable pathways through network logic when there are several paths close in duration? Here we take a look at how to do this. The critical path is an important concept in scheduling a project. By most standard critical […]
Updating a Baseline in Primavera P6
Updating a Baseline in Primavera P6 A customer recently asked about what to do when scope is added to an ongoing project. Their question: “After I enter the new activities, how can I set new baselines for those activities without affecting the baselines of the original activities?” To review how a schedule is progressing, you […]
Actual Cost Calculations in Primavera P6
Actual cost calculations in Primavera P6 Professional do not always update during scheduling to match the resulting Activity % Complete values. That is a problem, so let’s investigate the P6 actual cost calculations. If you want the Actual Cost of an activity to update when the activity duration progresses, toggle on the resource assignments calculation […]
Using The Expected Finish Date in Primavera P6
Typically, schedulers think in terms of remaining duration for activities when progressing the schedule, but it is also feasible to specify an expected finish date and have P6 calculate the respective activity’s remaining duration. The physical percent complete type is the most accurate way to show progress on a schedule. However, it does require more […]