How to Adjust the Row Height in Microsoft Project Often schedulers have to adapt the presentation of their schedules in preparation for reporting to stakeholders. A common reason is to make them easier to read. Space on Gantt charts is usually sparse and as so, schedulers can be used to small row heights to itemize […]
What is Driving the Critical Path?
What is Driving the Critical Path? Do you ever look at a pdf of the schedule and see multiple activities in-progress that are also showing as critical? Figure 1 – multiple in-progress activities shown on Critical Path How can this be? Critical Path Defined First, we need to know how the Critical Path is defined […]
Does Your Business Manage These 3 Types of Risk?
3 Types of Risk you Should be Managing! We often meet managers who have a solid understanding of the concept of risk, and enterprise risk management, but who have a narrow view of what risk actually is. For them, risks are bad. They represent things that could go wrong. Risks should be managed out of […]
Model Weekly Project Meetings in Primavera P6
Weekly project meetings that require the broad attendance of resources, will incur costs that are not always measured. Modelling weekly project meetings in Primavera P6 can be done quite easily, as a Level Of Effort (LOE) activity. LOE activity in Primavera P6 has been designed for representing work which does not directly contribute to the […]
How to Use Work Products and Documents in Primavera P6
Primavera P6’s Work Products and Documents feature enable schedulers’ to catalog and keep track of all project-related documents and deliverables. When a project commences there are typically a variety of documents associated with it. For example, in the planning stages, there will be safety standards, design templates, associated guidelines, blueprints, work schedules, and manuals to […]
Address the Project Warning Signs to Stop Disasters
Many of the project warning signs that it will end in disaster are vague. This is especially true if there is a lack of communication, particularly at the start of a project. If client proposals are vague, then the scope of the project will be vague. Maybe the client doesn’t completely know what they want, […]
5 Reasons Why Your Business Needs Risk Management
Many businesses say they do risk management, but when you look more deeply into what they do, it’s a spreadsheet of possible business risks, updated quarterly. This is a start. But in order to operate competitively today, risk management needs to be high on your organization’s agenda, and embedded in the fabric of how teams […]
Restrict Access to Cost Information in Primavera P6 EPPM
How to Restrict Access to Cost Information in Primavera P6 EPPM Sometimes companies need to restrict access to cost information to a select few, for example, pay rates. So how does Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) hide labor pay rates from all schedulers? After all, Primavera P6 schedulers need to access labor rates […]
Draw Relationships in the Gantt Chart in Primavera P6
How to draw and edit relationships in the Gantt Chart The Gantt chart is at the center of most scheduling software, where analysis by schedulers and the project team takes place. The Gantt chart is popular as it offers a visual display of how a project is progressing instead of a lot of text and […]
Improving Project Success Through Team Engagement
The project manager, team engagement, project performance and ultimately project success are all intertwined. Project managers should take their part in maintaining team engagement which will increase project performance. Successful, high performing teams are usually led by project managers who have the professional skills and expertise that can create effective strategies that will motivate and […]