When should you use Negative Lag? Are you looking for ways to fast track your schedule? Fast tracking the schedule, takes activities that are scheduled in series and performs all or some of their duration in parallel to shorten the project’s planned or remaining lifecycle. If you want to shorten your schedule by fast tracking […]
Defining Activity Relationships in Primavera P6 EPPM
If you are not familiar with the process of defining relationships between activities in Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) Web, read on. Once activities and activity durations have been added in Primavera P6 EPPM
Deltek Cobra 5.1.3 Multiple Database Upgrade Wizard
A stellar new toy in the Deltek Cobra box called the “Database Upgrade Wizard” made its debut with the release of version 5.1.3 – and it’s a welcome addition to the tool-set.
Primavera P6 EPPM – Reporting on Critical & Near Critical Activities
A useful report to produce in Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) Web and often asked for, is one displaying only critical activities and/or near critical activities. Once you have entered all your activities and activity relationships, Primavera
Project Constraints and Primavera P6
Scheduling best practice generally discourages the use of constraints, or at least keeping them to an absolute minimum, but what if you have a project constraint date that cannot be ignored? In this case, you should know the process
Activity Codes in Primavera P6 EPPM
When using Primavera P6 EPPM, there are times where you may want to sort and organize a large schedule with your own unique codes. Primavera P6 EPPM allows you to create your own code categories and associated code values for organizing you schedule activities.
Ten Six Leads Agile Track at EVM World 2015
EVM World is the biggest Earned Value Management conference in the country and this years event will be no exception. EVM World 2015 will be held in New Orleans
Barbecana’s Full Monte Sensitivity Analysis Overview
The main purpose of sensitivity analysis is to show the contribution of each task to the overall uncertainty associated with either project completion or an interim deliverable (milestone). In Full Monte the required target is selected on the Risk Analysis
Defining Activities in Primavera P6 EPPM
After the completion of your Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) in Primavera P6 EPPM, it is time to define the activities that produce the WBS elements, i.e., the decomposed deliverables.
Scheduling Weekly Events in Microsoft Project
It’s not uncommon that you have weekly status meetings and that the time and cost of those meetings is not immaterial? If this is the case then Microsoft Project has a great feature that allows you to schedule recurring tasks