Many scheduling guidelines including the PMI’s PMBOK (Project Management Body of Knowledge), use the term “near critical’ to describe activities in a schedule that are within a few days of joining the critical path; that is to say they only have a few days of Total Float.
Restoring and Converting Baselines in Primavera P6 Professional
Managing Baselines in Primavera P6 Professional is a slightly different process than you would encounter in file based tools such as Microsoft Project. When you save a baseline in Microsoft Project,
Variance Reporting in Primavera P6 Professional
Variance reporting in Primavera P6 requires that the project has a baseline and it is assigned as either a Project Baseline or a Primary Baseline.
Primavera P6: Time Distributed Reporting and Microsoft Excel
It’s common practice to use Primavera P6 Professional’s Time Distributed reports feature to create time-phased tables of data that are then exported to Microsoft Excel. However, if you’ve ever done this you may have noticed that in many cases the sub-totals row can be one column too far to the left.
Primavera P6 Professional Hint Help
For people new to using Primavera P6 Professional, learning what information the myriad data columns can provide can be a little daunting. Fear not, help is at hand. Hint Help is a neat little tool built into P6 Professional that gives detailed information about the columns and fields you see displayed in on the interface. So if you ever find yourself wondering how
Primavera P6 Percent Complete Types
There are some important differences in the way Primavera P6 Professional behaves when status is added to Physical and Duration Percent Complete activity types. It’s important to understand these differences
Activity Steps in Primavera P6 Professional
There are a number of features that are unique to Oracle Primavera P6 and are so useful, it’s a wonder other vendors like Microsoft haven’t copied the ideas. In this case we’re looking at a feature called Activity Steps.
Fill Down Examples in Primavera P6 Professional
Here are a couple of time-saving tips for modifying data values in Primavera P6 Professional using the Fill Down feature.
Primavera XML And Microsoft Project XML Import/Export Stuck In Running Status
In the past month, we’ve encountered a strange problem when importing or exporting XML files using Primavera P6 EPPM. If you’ve had a similar problem importing or exporting a Primavera XML or Microsoft Project XML file into Primavera P6 EPPM and it seems to get stuck, then the solution below may help. What seems to […]
Installing Primavera P6 Professional Standalone on Windows 8
Primavera P6 Professional is supported on the Microsoft Windows 8 (32bit and 64 bit) operating system. The last two revisions of the Primavera P6 tested configurations spreadsheet, the latest