Do you understand task dependency relationships? If you’ve ever become confused when trying to decipher the predecessor from the successor in task relationships, you are not alone. Read on to discover a helpful paradigm for understanding task dependencies. The terminology used in task dependency relationships breeds misunderstanding. The terms predecessor and successor to describe task […]
S-Curves in Primavera P6 Professional
We’re frequently asked if Primavera P6 Professional is capable of displaying S-Curves. Sure, it can do that. You just have to know where to look. In this article, I’ll show you how to generate and print some basic S-Curves using Primavera P6 Professional.
Using Management Reserve (MR)
This is the third in a series of three articles about Management Reserve written by EVM SME Mark Infanti. You can read the previous two articles on this subject here; Management Reserve Defined and Estimating Management Reserve (MR). Now we have defined what it is and discussed how it is estimated. Now we need to […]
Primavera P6 Level Of Effort Activity Type
Quite a few folks have been asking about how and when to use the Primavera P6 Level Of Effort activities, so we though we would make a short movie explaining how they work. This video takes you through what Level Of Effort type activities are and how to use them in Primavera P6. These activities […]
The Value of Milestones in Project Scheduling
Let’s assume you have your project mapped out! You have your list of deliverables and you know the activities required to produce those deliverables. Is there something missing? Like a hiking trail with markers telling you definitively where you are on the trail wouldn’t it be helpful to have markers in your project schedule telling […]
Questions You Should Ask When Implementing A PMO
Implementing a Project Management Office (PMO) is often not as simple as it might seem. As noted in this article, politics, organizational dynamics, history, personalities, etc. often come into play. When a client asks us to help “right the ship” of a struggling PMO implementation, one of the first things we want to understand, is […]
Inserting an Activity in a Primavera P6 Schedule
It’s almost inevitable! You have just added all your activities, the backbone of your schedule, and all are in order and numbered sequentially. Then it happens. Your upper level manager or program sponsor asks you to insert another activity right into the heart of your schedule. Are you prepared to respond to this contingency? It […]
Finding the Longest Critical Schedule Tasks Using Microsoft Project
Schedule optimization requires investigation of critical tasks to see whether fast tracking or “crashing” of these tasks will materially shorten the schedule. You also may want to perform a more accurate bottom-up estimate of these tasks to confirm their duration estimates. If you are looking for a way to help focus in on those tasks […]
Primavera P6 Portfolios
Primavera P6’s Enterprise Project Structure (EPS) organizes the entire database of projects into a manageable system reminiscent of a file structure. It also allows the administrator to control who sees what projects and what permissions they have when accessing those various projects. Even so, the list of projects can become quite considerable and you may […]
Deltek Cobra Version 5.1.4
In late June Deltek released Cobra version 5.1.4 (5.01.4700.0565). This version offers a few new features and enhancements that will improve usability and convenience in some areas of the tool. In this article we take a brief look at some of the highlights of this new version and explore a couple of the new features. Note: […]