Properly placed milestones can guide you through the schedule. But improper milestones may misrepresent the reality of your true schedule situation. Milestones are major markers in the schedule. They either tell you where you’ve been or where you are going. Milestones help to highlight the completion of a phase of work, submittal of deliverables, or […]
Understanding Work Equation Units in Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project
What are the units of each variable in the work equation? These units differ depending on which scheduling tool you use. The work equation is an important concept in scheduling. It specifies how you want the software to behave when adding additional resources to a schedule. A recent student mentioned that when interviewing job candidates […]
How To Ask for More PMO Funding
How to ask for more PMO funding We’ve written before about how to ask for more PMO staff to support your growing organization, but sometimes you need more than just bodies to deliver your strategy. Need More PMO Funding? In this article we’ll look at how to secure more PMO funding. It can be a […]
Deltek Cobra – Quick Access Toolbar Tricks
Deltek Cobra 8.1 is a gift that just keeps on giving. The ribbon based interface has borrowed some nice convenient features from similar tools in the Windows environment. Today, I’m going to take a closer look at the Quick Access Toolbar. Located to the right of the Deltek Cobra start button, the Quick Access Toolbar […]
Using Activity Network Diagram Layouts in Primavera P6
Primavera P6 Professional has a nice feature to position activities and relationships in a preferred network diagram. These layouts can be saved so that it is retrievable. A network diagram is good at highlighting the true relationships between activities. The nature of these relationships becomes apparent when activities in the network diagram are relationally connected. […]
Guidelines for Dangling Logic
Guidelines for dangling logic. Most guidelines say all activities except the very first and very last activity should have both a predecessor and successor. But is this rule enough to ensure no dangling logic in the schedule? The scheduler’s intent is not to specify start and finish dates for each activity, perhaps, with constraints, but […]
Video: How to Recover a Lost Primavera P6 SQLite Password
What can I do if I’ve forgotten my Primavera P6 Professional password? In this 6 minute video, you learn two options showing how to regain access to your Primavera P6 SQLite password. Summary of Video Content If you are running Primavera P6 Professional using the SQLite standalone database, you have basically two options for regaining […]
Importing an XLS File into Primavera P6
It is not uncommon for project managers or their team members to organize project data in Microsoft Excel. Primavera P6 makes importing an XLS File task related project data possible. Manual entry of task related project data into Primavera P6 Professional quickly becomes laborious. It is more efficient to import the project data directly from […]
How to Assign a Task Calendar in Microsoft Project
Microsoft Project assigns the project calendar to tasks by default. But it is possible to assign a unique task calendar to specific tasks. It is simplest to have one calendar assigned to all tasks in a schedule. This is why the default in Microsoft Project is to assign all tasks the project calendar. This makes […]
Scope Risk Analysis
When it comes to project management, beginning well is important and helps the project build momentum. Scope risk, however, may threaten the earliest stages of project work, when scope is defined. Project managers must key in on the triple constraint scope, schedule, and cost throughout the project lifecycle. Of the three, scope risk should be […]