August is the month we all get to see the latest version of Primavera P6. Oracle has just released Primavera P6 18.8, which for those of you with on premises installations, will be an upgrade from the previous version 17.12. This release brings some of the features from earlier 18.x versions previously only available to […]
Introduction to BI Publisher Webinar
Cost: Free of charge Duration: 2-hours Dates For your convenience, we’re hosting the same webinar on three different dates. Tuesday August 28th at (10am CDT) Thursday September 6th at (10am CDT) Wednesday September 12th (10am CDT) Description BI Publisher is Oracle’s powerful report development tool that is integrated with Primavera P6 EPPM, Primavera Contract Management […]
How To Create A Monthly Cost Report In Primavera P6
Today we’ll show how to create a monthly budgeted total cost report in Primavera P6 Professional. Let’s say you have the budgeted total cost of your project, which is good to know. Your subcontractor performing the work, however, wants a monthly budgeted total project cost report. Yes, you can generate this report
How to Manage Task Groups in Project Schedules
Many of the project schedules we see run to hundreds of tasks, and it’s not uncommon to see project schedules with thousands of lines. While it’s great that projects are being planned in detail and that all these activities can be adequately managed, it’s not easy to read a Gantt chart with several thousand lines
10 Killer Interview Questions for PMO Roles
Part of PMO implementation planning, is ensuring that you have enough staff to carry out the functions that are required. Many PMOs are created from internal team members who want to move across from project management into a PMO role. Or you may find bright and enthusiastic people from other divisions who would be a […]
Using Finish On Or After Constraints In Primavera P6
The Primavera P6 Finish On Or After (FOOA) constraint supports situations when an event must occur either at the same time or before the completion of an effort. The start and finish of a project is comparable to the movement of a train. The train slowly gains speed until it reaches velocity. Likewise, the
How to Check for High Float (and why you should)
How good is the quality of your schedule? You may have spent a lot of time working out the tasks and dependencies with your team, entering it into your enterprise project management software, checking it over with stakeholders and so on… but how do you really know that you’ve done a quality scheduling job? Luckily […]
Deltek Cobra 8.2 – Productivity Gains You May Have Missed
Sometimes you don’t realize how good something is until you don’t have access to it. This is true in many walks of life, but today I want to talk about Deltek Cobra release 8.2. Just when you think it can’t get any better, they find a way to improve the tool. At the bottom of page […]
Creating a Work Breakdown Structure in Primavera P6
Creation of the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is an important step in the scheduling process and here we show you how to create a WBS in Primavera P6 Professional. The WBS essentially is a hierarchical breakdown of all the project deliverables. A deliverable is an end product or service that
Are You Struggling To Get Effective Training?
Here at Ten Six, we work with Program Managers across many different industries to get themselves and, their PMOs, to the next level of performance and, in a position to take on greater challenges. We sometimes have the opportunity to work with clients where they have not yet embarked on training their teams. Equally, it’s […]