How to create a more effective project management environment. The successful implementation or improvement of project management practices requires management to drive change. This is due to the environmental and procedural changes inherent in a transition to a project-based business model. And as with any corporate initiative, management support is essential in setting expectations, measuring […]
Monitoring Forecasted and Contract Completion Dates in Primavera P6
Your Primavera P6 schedule has a binding outside contract constraint date that doesn’t coincide with your schedule’s forecasted project completion date. Because of this, you need to monitor both the project’s estimated completion date and the binding contract completion date on your schedule. Come along as we demonstrate the best way to describe both in […]
Microsoft Project 2013 and the Look Ahead Filter
After schedule creation it’s very common to want to filter all tasks occurring in the near future. This near term view can be created as a Microsoft Project look ahead filter. A key concept in David Allen’s acclaimed organizational book “Getting Things Done” is to focus on your project’s next step tasks. This process helps […]
Primavera P6 Four Week Schedule Look Ahead
How to create a Primavera P6 four week look ahead filter. Once a schedule has been created, baselined and started, you begin the process of tracking progress. In support of this effort, it’s not uncommon to want to report all activities taking place in say, the next 4 weeks. David Allen’s popular book on organization […]
Primavera P6 Professional Trace Logic Feature
At the heart of most scheduling software is the Gantt chart. But using the Primavera P6 trace logic feature is useful if you are interested in better understanding the relationships between activities. Trace Logic is a tool in Primavera P6 Professional that enables you to step through or “trace” through schedule activities in order to […]
Achieving Project Success Through Best Practices
Businesses today strive for project success through best practices. Many businesses do not rely on one strategic project, but many parallel initiatives that must combine to meet business objectives. With decentralized and global work forces, projects must coordinate the efforts of multiple cross-functional teams operating in different environments and geographic locations. More often than not, […]
Project Initiation
Many decisions are made during the life of a project, but the decision that has the greatest impact of all is the first; this is the decision to execute the project. Here we explore the analysis in the project initiation phase that should proceed this most important of project decisions. Yes, careful analysis of a […]
Using Reflections in Primavera P6 Professional
Are you looking to experiment with schedule changes in a way that allows you to later decide whether or not to make those changes permanent? If so, you may want to become familiar with a pretty cool P6 feature. Primavera P6 reflections. Reflection is a feature in Primavera P6 Professional that provides you a way […]
Renumbering Activity IDs in Primavera P6 Professional
It’s inevitable: you have just completed entering all the required activities to produce your project deliverables when your upper level manager requests you to insert several additional activities into the schedule. Do you know how to renumber activity IDs in
Ways to Handle Resource Over-Allocation in Primavera P6 Professional
You may have the best schedule. Your activity duration estimates may be quite accurate. Your schedule logic may be finely tuned to complete the work in the least amount of time. You may have created the perfect schedule, however, if you do not have the resources available to perform the work your schedule is not […]