Creating a schedule update report for program sponsors or customers that they are happy with is not always an easy task. What do you provide them? Would a progressed Gantt chart be sufficient? Or how about
Primavera P6 EPPM – Setting Up a Four-Day Work Week
Before you begin scheduling activities in Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) Web, it is important to create a calendar that represents the default working days for project
Updating Activities in Primavera P6
A common request that we receive is from folks wanting to understand how to update work progress using the update features in Primavera P6 Professional. This article describes the major steps to updating your schedule based upon the progress of your
Using Physical and Duration Percent Complete Types In Primavera P6
If you are looking for a quick way to update the progress of work on your Primavera P6 schedule or you want to describe the progress of work that has a non-uniform production rate, then you should become familiar with the different Percent Complete Types
Tracking Costs in Primavera P6
Do you know how tracking costs in Primavera P6 works? Most of us are familiar with the process of updating and tracking schedule activity progress from a time standpoint, but what about the cost of those activities? Well, Primavera P6 has features available for keeping track of the cost of labor, equipment, and material resources. […]
Creating a Work Breakdown Structure in Primavera P6 EPPM
It is not untypically that at the beginning of your project you contemplate the activities that will become your schedule. But before you start creating a schedule around these activities you should first consider what the major deliverables of
Setting Up a 4-Day Work Week in Primavera P6
Before you begin scheduling tasks in Primavera P6 it is important to create a calendar that represents the default working days for project tasks. The default project calendar is used by Primavera P6 to set the working days and times for project tasks. Primavera P6 is set to a default
Primavera P6 – Adding Generic Labor Resources to a Project
If you want to assign resources to your project schedule, but don’t wish to utilize the Role features of Primavera P6, you can take the simpler approach of naming labor resources by their skill. This will allow you to avoid
Assigning Expenses in Primavera P6
If you are looking for ways to assign costs to activities in Primavera P6 without creating a global resource for every item, then you may find the Expenses feature useful. A project expense can be many things: administration, travel, consulting, software, facilities, training, you name it. The Expenses tool is also ideal
Scheduling a 24-hour Elapsed Time Lag In Primavera P6
Primavera P6 has the capability to model either workday or 24-hour elapsed time lags in your schedule. A 24-hour elapsed time lag can be very useful when you are trying to model such constants as the cure process for concrete, which of course