Today we’re facing some hard truths. Poor risk management has the ability to severely impact your business. Whether that’s through a delay to project benefits impacting your revenue and profit streams, or one of the other effects that we describe below, poor risk management is something you can’t afford. Luckily, you don’t have to put […]
Exporting Primavera P6 Professional Files
If you have ever considered exporting Primavera P6 Professional files you may have quickly become baffled. The number of export options are plentiful and here we explore each option. Primavera P6 Professional has seven different ways to export a file. Why so many? Each export option serves a different function. It is useful to become […]
Primavera P6 – Float on Critical Activities?
We recently encountered the perplexing situation whereby the schedule was showing float on critical activities in Primavera P6. The total float was greater than zero on some of their critical activities. How can this be I hear you ask? If an activity has a total float greater than zero, by definition it cannot be critical […]
10 Essential Functions For Your PMO
10 Essential Functions For Your PMO. The Project Management Office (a PMO) team wears many hats. As your PMO matures, you’ll want to add more services and functions into the team. The depth of information they hold and the value they can add by critically applying that information to today’s business problems is only going […]
Activity Codes in Primavera P6 Professional
Activity codes help filter, group, and sort activities by some particular value, such as project phase, location on work site, and/or responsible contractor for an activity’s completion. Yes activity codes support schedule reporting. So once you have all your deliverable Work Breakdowns Structure (WBS) elements and associated activities listed in your schedule, you most likely […]
Microsoft Project and Copying Down a Column Using Fill Down
You may have found that the popular copy and paste feature found in most windows software applications, does not work quite as well in Microsoft Project. Don’t worry though. Microsoft Project has a Fill Down tool that can be used to populate a column. Novice schedulers may resort to the laborious process of manually entering […]
Key Roles Involved In Project Risk Management
There are lots of benefits of project risk management, many of which are discussed elsewhere on this site. But ‘risk management’ can be an abstract unless you work with your teams to implement the changes required to deliver on those benefits. When you are setting up new risk management processes, it’s important to get the […]
How to Tie Up Those Dangling Loose End Activities
Activities (except project complete) that have no successor are referred to as dangling activities. These open ended activities are loose ends in the project that make monitoring their progress difficult. There are, however, more than one way to tie up dangling activities in the schedule. Relationships define the order and interaction between activities. The most […]
Primavera P6 Professional and Transferring Filters
I was asked about Primavera P6 transferring filters. My response was to suggest making the filters global then anyone in the database may access them, but she said that the filters reside on another Primavera P6 database. Yes, it is possible to transfer Primavera P6 filter files between P6 databases. Primavera P6 Professional is capable […]
How To Have a Responsive PMO
Project Management Offices (PMO) should be responsive teams: a responsive PMO. OK, the business strategy doesn’t evolve that regularly, but there are still plenty of reasons to stay in touch with the people who are using the PMO’s services. Unfortunately, most PMO activity seems to be sending out information, and not listening to what is […]