To maintain the integrity of the schedule the P6 project baseline updating process should fall under some form of change management control. Primavera P6 Professional provides a few security profile settings to restrict baseline changes. Primavera P6 Professional has project baselines and user baselines. P6 project baselines are meant to provide a snapshot of the […]
Reaching Objectives to Deal with Opportunity & Risk
How does one provide for a competitive schedule that exploits opportunities and protects against obvious risks? The opportunity and risk objectives are twofold: Take advantage of opportunities and provide protection from risks Implement reasonable actions to maintain your competitive edge These two objectives compete against one another, and, therefore must be balanced. And opportunity and […]
Using Contract Completion Dates In Microsoft Project
Projects come with deadlines. They may be Contract Completion Dates (CCD) or deadlines imposed by your project sponsor. There is more than one way to monitor Using Contract Completion Dates in Microsoft Project. Microsoft Project has a deadlines feature that may impose a deadline date on a respective milestone. This deadline appears as a static […]
Dissolving Activities in Primavera P6 EPPM
There is an efficient way to remove activities from a schedule in Primavera P6 EPPM and it’s called dissolving activities. Here we take a look at how to do it. In the process of planning a project schedulers have to make numerous changes to the planned schedule. Many times these changes involve deleting activities that […]
What is an Over Target Baseline (OTB)?
The Electronic Industries Alliance Standard 748 (EIA-748), Earned Value Management Systems (EVMS), defines Over Target Baseline (OTB) as “a new baseline for management when the original objectives cannot be met and new goals are needed for management purposes.” In other words an over target baseline is an agreement between the customer and the contractor to […]
The Deltek Acumen Risk Exposure Comparison Chart
The Risk Exposure Comparison Chart or the S Chart Analyzer is commonly used to compare the probability curves between different risk models. Deltek Acumen Risk’s schedule simulation software provides Monte Carlo probability distributions based on activity uncertainty. This Monte Carlo analysis is a significant improvement over single point deterministic schedule analysis. Additionally, schedulers can include […]
How to Schedule Weekly Meetings In Primavera P6
Projects that have weekly status meetings requiring broad attendance of resources will incur costs for those meetings. How can schedulers model these meetings in Primavera P6 Professional? Primavera P6 Professional does not have a weekly event feature similar to Microsoft Project, but schedulers can implement its Level Of Effort (LOE) activity type to track the […]
The Opportunity and Risk Process Acronym ORSIPARM
ORSIPARM is an acronym from risk analysis that provides a concise and handy mnemonic to help one’s focus on the opportunity and risk process. Some project managers and schedulers need a quick reminder to help them keep a handle on the opportunity and risk process. The ORSIPARM acronym stands for Opportunities, Risks, Scanning, Identification, Prioritization, […]
7 Ways to Get Primavera P6 Help
Are you a user looking for Primavera P6 help? You’re in the right place! Below we have listed 7 sources of help for Primavera P6 so that you can get the most out of the software that you use. What is P6? P6 is a short way of saying Primavera P6 Professional. It’s a robust, […]
The Differing Negative FS and Positive SS Schedule Outcomes
It may appear when scheduling tasks that a Finish-to-Start (FS) and negative lag is functionally the same as a Start-to-Start (SS) and positive lag, but they are not. Let’s take a closer look at these two approaches. Many scheduling guidelines prohibit the use of negative lag. And we have already written about the drawbacks of […]