When it comes to project management, the team you build is everything. A high-performing project management team can be the difference between a smooth, well-executed project and one that’s constantly derailed by delays and miscommunication. So, how do you build a high-performing project management team? It’s not just about hiring the best people or assigning […]
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In P6 Professional, you can display total float on the Gantt Chart in both numerical and graphical forms. Let’s take a look. The Gantt chart, at its core, is a visual representation of the project, listing tasks vertically and time intervals for these tasks horizontally. I always tell students that the Gantt chart is the
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The Power of Narrative in Project Communication If you read anything about giving effective presentations or being a powerful public speaker, you’ll come back to the same idea time and time again: storytelling. Telling stories has been around as a communication technique since the dawn of time. From myths to ghost stories to fairytales, people
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Project management is seeing major transformations with more of it becoming data-driven. Thanks to big data analytics, project managers no longer have to rely on just experience and intuition when making decisions. Through big data analytics, project managers can access a ton of relevant information and facts relating to their situation. In this post we
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Primavera P6 EPPM 25.12 has been released by Oracle for on-premise users. If your P6 installation is hosted with Oracle, then you have enjoyed these features being released over the year with monthly updates. For on-premise installations, we typically get the cumulation of all the features in one big end of year release, hence Primavera
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P6 Professional 25.12 was released in late December 2025. In keeping with past years release cadence, Oracle released an update to P6 Professional. Here’s a look at what the new features are in P6 Professional 25.12 and some of the bugs that have been addressed. P6 Professional 25.12 – New features Improved Flexibility and Control
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How does a scheduler add curtains for holiday shutdowns on the Gantt chart? Let’s take a look. Schedulers can add curtains to the Gantt chart to display non-working periods that document delays caused by permits, other external dependencies and holiday shutdowns. These curtains are static and do not affect task start and finish dates. They
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Managing trade partners during the holiday season is one of those topics that never makes it into the glossy project management books but shows up every single year on real job sites. Crews disappear. Schedules tighten. Phones stop getting answered. If you are a project manager who has lived through December on a construction site,
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It’s time for another “Trends to Watch” edition! We asked our experts in the office what developments in the world of project management and PMO management were top of mind for them as we go into the new year, and the big takeaway is that we’ve moved from emerging trends to operational reality. Many of
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Acumen Fuse’s merge hotspot metric flags tasks for potential delay when they have more than 2 predecessors. To isolate riskier tasks and prioritize them for a more in-depth delay analysis, you can relax this requirement to apply it only to tasks with more than 7 predecessors. The Merge Hotspot metric examines a schedule for tasks
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