Monitoring near critical activities can be just as important as monitoring the critical ones. Once you have entered all your activities and activity relationships, and Primavera P6 has computed your critical path, you’ll know all the activities that have zero float. These are the activities that could
PDUs For Training Demystified
As one of the few Global Registered Education Providers for PMI® (Project Management Institute), Ten Six has a unique insight into how the PMP® credential process works, and how training companies can help you manage your recertification requirements. Holders of the PMP credential
Creating A Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) In Primavera P6
One of the first steps in planning a project is to break down the project into its major deliverables i.e. major product or service components. This is known as the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). After you have created
Working Time, Elapsed Time & Lags in Microsoft Project 2013
Microsoft Project has the capability to model both workday lag and 24-hour elapsed time lags within one schedule. When you’re working with projects that require a mixture of working time and elapsed time, you’ll need to understand how to describe this in your schedule.
Printing A Gantt Chart In Primavera P6
Primavera P6 has some great options for viewing and printing Gantt charts that can give you the flexibility you need to meet the reporting demands of peers, senior management and stakeholders. One useful option in Primavera P6 is the ability to open
What’s Next For Your PMO?
Every company’s Project Management Office is slightly different. The functions that your PMO provides depends on where the unit sits within the business, what resources it controls and how much responsibility it has. PMOs can range
How Do You Score An Integrated Baseline Review (IBR)?
You need to be careful to avoid the trap of looking at an IBR (Integrated Baseline Review) as something that is graded like a term paper or assigning a “Pass/Fail” grade to the process. The IBR is meant to be a collaborative effort that consolidates the understanding of a baseline
Setting Up a Four-Day Work Week in Microsoft Project 2013
Before you begin scheduling tasks in Microsoft Project 2013, it is important to create a calendar that represents the default working days for project tasks. The default project calendar is used by Microsoft Project 2013 to set the working days and times for project tasks
Primavera P6 Solves the Start-to-Start Open Network Problem
In Primavera P6, once all the activities are clearly defined and the corresponding durations accurately estimated, the next step in the scheduling process is to define the relationships between these activities. This can be a deceptively challenging
Use The WBS Dictionary To Better Understand Your Schedule
In a previous blog I talked about how the WBS Dictionary, with its ability to map the WBS to the SOW, which opens up opportunities to better, understand your project. In this blog we’re going to be looking at one of those ways, namely how you can use the WBS Dictionary to understand