Many folks ask about the printing capabilities in Primavera P6 EPPM and in particular, the printing of the Gantt Chart. The good news is that Primavera P6 EPPM has some great features available that support the printing of the activity table and associated Gantt chart. This article takes a look at how to utilize the […]
Introducing the Primavera P6 Progress Line
If you are looking for a real quick way to spot trouble in a project, the progress line is a vertical plot that provides the highest level view of schedule progress. Yes, it is a simple visual monitor for the project displaying exactly where you are ahead, behind, or on schedule. It’s great, in particular, […]
S-Curves in Primavera P6 Professional
We’re frequently asked if Primavera P6 Professional is capable of displaying S-Curves. Sure, it can do that. You just have to know where to look. In this article, I’ll show you how to generate and print some basic S-Curves using Primavera P6 Professional.
Primavera P6 Level Of Effort Activity Type
Quite a few folks have been asking about how and when to use the Primavera P6 Level Of Effort activities, so we though we would make a short movie explaining how they work. This video takes you through what Level Of Effort type activities are and how to use them in Primavera P6. These activities […]
The Value of Milestones in Project Scheduling
Let’s assume you have your project mapped out! You have your list of deliverables and you know the activities required to produce those deliverables. Is there something missing? Like a hiking trail with markers telling you definitively where you are on the trail wouldn’t it be helpful to have markers in your project schedule telling […]
Inserting an Activity in a Primavera P6 Schedule
It’s almost inevitable! You have just added all your activities, the backbone of your schedule, and all are in order and numbered sequentially. Then it happens. Your upper level manager or program sponsor asks you to insert another activity right into the heart of your schedule. Are you prepared to respond to this contingency? It […]
Primavera P6 Portfolios
Primavera P6’s Enterprise Project Structure (EPS) organizes the entire database of projects into a manageable system reminiscent of a file structure. It also allows the administrator to control who sees what projects and what permissions they have when accessing those various projects. Even so, the list of projects can become quite considerable and you may […]
Primavera P6 Displaying Two Baselines on the Gantt Chart
Suppose you wanted to display two baselines on the Gantt chart: one baseline for measuring progress since the commencement of the project and another baseline for measuring the current month’s progress. You can do this in Primavera P6.
Start to Finish Relationships – to use them, or not?
Of the four standard activity relationship types you can define in most half decent scheduling tools, the Start to Finish relationship is the least used, but the one responsible for most of the puzzled looks I get when training new schedulers. Admittedly in my 25 years of working with schedules on various systems, I’ve used […]
How to Filter Projects in Primavera P6
Similar to how activity codes in Primavera P6 can be used to filter activities within a project, project codes can be used to filter projects in an Enterprise Project Structure (EPS) portfolio. So you can filter your project portfolio by any number of custom project codes, such as