Do you know how to create PDF files of your Gantt chart and activities table? One of the challenges of creating a schedule is to make it understandable to stakeholders, but if you cannot provide them your schedule in a presentable format, that’s a problem. Many of the print features in Primavera P6 EPPM are […]
Webinar: Top 10 Tips from The Cobra Guy
Date: Thursday, November 10, 2016 Time: 11:00 AM Eastern Standard Time Duration: 1 hour Top 10 Tips from the Cobra Guy The Cobra Guy is on a mission is to share tips, tricks and helpful information about Deltek Cobra through our Ten Six blog. And now, we’re taking it live during an upcoming joint webinar […]
A More Descriptive Solution to the Negative Lags Dilemma
Removing negative lag or leads from your schedule is a noble cause. But replacing negative lag with positive lag and, perhaps, a start to start (SS) relationship may only be a partial solution. Negative lag or (lead) is a real problem in schedules. The following blog The Negatives of Negative Lag explains in detail the […]
Microsoft Project and the Must Start On Hard Constraint
When using Microsoft Project, there may be times when want to consider a Must Start On (MSO) constraint for tasks that must commence on a very specific date. There are, however, issues associated with MSO constraints. An example scenario is that you have a very tight window of opportunity to perform the quality assurance (QA) […]
Primavera P6 and the Finish On or Before Schedule Constraint
What kind of schedule activity constraint in Primavera P6 Professional would you use to model the situation where you have to deliver a report no later than a specified date? And you, of course, can deliver the report earlier, but this date is the do-or-die finish date. Ideally you want your activity durations and associated […]
The DCMA 14-Point Assessment and Hard Constraints
Hard constraints are date constraints on schedule activities that may cause them to violate activity dependency relationships, i.e. the network logic. Still limited application of these constraints is acceptable according to the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) 14-point assessment. The DCMA 14-point assessment was developed to raise the standard and quality of schedules; particularly those […]
Primavera P6 EPPM 4-Week Schedule Look Ahead
Many Primavera P6 users want to create a 4-week look ahead (or similar) of all in-progress or starting activities. Here we demonstrate how to create this filter in Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) 16.1. Primavera P6 EPPM 16.1 is Oracle’s most recent version. The standard view is the most up to date interface […]
Primary Drivers of Variances
Part of writing and developing good variance analyses requires an understanding and identifying of the primary drivers of variances. You can break down variances into to two key buckets: variances driven by technical issues and variances driven by rate issues. These can be defined further: Rate vs. Usage variance in Labor – A rate variance […]
Removing Relationships from Multiple Activities in Primavera P6
What is the most efficient way to remove multiple relationships from multiple activities in Primavera P6? Removing relationships from an activity is possible by highlighting that activity and employing the bottom predecessor, successor, and/or relationship details to remove associated activities. This works great, but may quickly become laborious when you have to remove relationships from […]
How Can You Exclude Activities From Acumen Fuse?
When you are assessing your schedule’s quality, there are typically activities that you want to exclude from the analysis so they don’t cloud the results. You might have some activities that represent work your customer is going to do for example. You wouldn’t assign resources to this work (skews Normal Tasks with No Resource metric). […]