A commonly used scheduling practice is to identify activities that are within a certain number of days from joining the critical path. In other words, the activity’s total float value is less than or equal to something like 10 days.
What Does A Project Health Check Involve?
One of the best ways to increase confidence in your project management effectiveness is to carry out a few targeted project health checks. These are assessments that help you determine whether or not a project is healthy: whether it is performing as it should and is on target
Primavera P6 – Importing XER Files Using Collabro’s Legare
The Oracle Primavera P6 database allows any number of projects to be “exported” to a single XER file, and that XER file can be “imported” into a P6 database in a variety of ways:
Milestone Performance Evaluation Tools
There has been increased interest in developing the ability to objectively assess a Program/Project executing team’s ability to successfully meet their Integrated Management Plan (IMP) goals. Using the Baseline Execution Index (BEI)
Managing Information Overload
Argh, there’s just too much data! Project management offices and project managers alike can find the amount of information generated as part of their job quite overwhelming at times. We’ve got timesheet data, status updates, email alerts, pings from instant
Microsoft Project 2010 Task Calculation Options
With the advent of Microsoft Project 2010, a new capability was introduced that allows you to select whether or not a particular task will be calculated as part of the critical path.
Primavera P6 R8.4
After the spate of recent conferences and events, the Oracle Primavera folks have been discussing their roadmap for Primavera P6. While it’s not uncommon for product roadmaps to span multiple years, they also seem to
Adding Ad-Hoc Activity Codes in Primavera P6
If you find that you needed to add a new activity code value to the activity codes list in Primavera P6, you can do so without having to go back to the Enterprise menu and using the Activity Codes dialog.
3 Pre-Requisites For Your EVM Deployment
So you’ve decided to implement Earned Value Management at your company? Congratulations! It’s a great way to manage cost and get accurate project reports. You’ll benefit from improved project delivery, greater management oversight and reduced project risk – and who doesn’t want all that?
5 Ways To Avoid Project Data Silos
Silos of data exist where project teams work independently – and sometimes people within project teams work independently as well, not sharing data that would be useful for the whole project. Senior managers who see this happening and still expect consistent project reporting are in for a shock!