Your quality assurance inspection can take place over a specified ideal date range. Here we look at how to display this prime period date range window of opportunity along with the forecasted inspection date on the Gantt chart. Scenario Your project’s government Contracting Officer (CO) plans to be onsite the last week in September. You […]
Why You Should Avoid Mandatory Activity Constraints
If you just cannot get your schedule to match an important finish milestone deadline you may be tempted to go “thermonuclear” by inserting a Mandatory Finish constraint on the milestone. You’ll definitely get your important finish date this way, but there will be collateral damage to your schedule. Let’s explore this. If you want a […]
Primavera P6 and Displaying Activity Table Ordinal Date Columns
Primavera P6 has a feature for displaying ordinal dates on the Gantt chart. No such equivalent feature is available to display ordinal date columns in the activity table. Let’s investigate a somewhat involved but viable approach to populating an activity column with ordinal dates. Ordinal dates are a way of measuring your schedule time in […]
Hiding Resource Pay Rates in Primavera P6
A student, in one of our classes recently, asked if it’s possible to mask or hide resource pay rates in Primavera P6 Professional? Well, resources in Primavera P6 Professional are global and available to all users. This is counterproductive to the effort to keep pay rates private. However, it is possible in Primavera P6 Professional, […]
Primavera P6 and Ordinal Gantt Chart Dates
Sometimes a project you are scheduling in Primavera P6 does not have an approved start date or the start date is unknown. To avoid confusion in these situations, many folks don’t want to display calendar dates on the Gantt chart. Instead they want to plan using calendar ordinal dates. In most scheduling situations you have […]
Shading Gantt Chart Non-Work Time in Primavera P6
You created a four-day work week calendar in Primavera P6 professional and assigned it as the default calendar to your current project. Despite this you Gantt chart non-work day shading still displays as a five day work week. Something’s wrong! Let’s look at what’s going on. The Gantt chart is at the heart of today’s […]
Using Units Percent Complete in Primavera P6 Professional
Do you want to track schedule progress based upon actual labor units expended? If yes, you will want to become familiar with the Units % complete type in Primavera P6 Professional. Here we take you through progressing a schedule using Units % complete. This article demonstrates how to use the Units % complete type to […]
Monitoring Forecasted and Contract Completion Dates in Primavera P6
Your Primavera P6 schedule has a binding outside contract constraint date that doesn’t coincide with your schedule’s forecasted project completion date. Because of this, you need to monitor both the project’s estimated completion date and the binding contract completion date on your schedule. Come along as we demonstrate the best way to describe both in […]
Primavera P6 Four Week Schedule Look Ahead
How to create a Primavera P6 four week look ahead filter. Once a schedule has been created, baselined and started, you begin the process of tracking progress. In support of this effort, it’s not uncommon to want to report all activities taking place in say, the next 4 weeks. David Allen’s popular book on organization […]
Primavera P6 Professional Trace Logic Feature
At the heart of most scheduling software is the Gantt chart. But using the Primavera P6 trace logic feature is useful if you are interested in better understanding the relationships between activities. Trace Logic is a tool in Primavera P6 Professional that enables you to step through or “trace” through schedule activities in order to […]