Project progress does not always go according to plan. When a schedule slips you will want a fast way to monitor this schedule slippage in Microsoft Project. The baseline is used as a measure of schedule progress. Microsoft Project has a few features to support monitoring schedule progress against the baseline. The slippage feature, in […]
Primavera P6 Professional File Transfer Requirements
Are you transferring a Primavera P6 schedule file from one counterpart P6 database to another, most likely from subcontractor to customer? If so, then you will want to establish agreed upon file transfer requirements to control project schedules produced or updated by counterparts. Quite often schedules are transferred between primary and subcontractors from one Primavera […]
Are You Receiving Accurate Project Status Reports?
When project managers turn in their weekly or monthly status reports, the real work begins for the Project Management Office. Even if your project management software does a lot of the data crunching for you, there’s still an element of human interaction to review and check the information before consolidated dashboards or reports leave the […]
Microsoft Project and Shading Gantt Chart Time Periods
Have you used the shading calendar feature in Microsoft Project? It is possible in Microsoft Project to shade a time period on the Gantt chart as nonworking time, and not necessarily require Microsoft Project to reschedule tasks around this time period. Sometimes schedulers want to shade nonworking time on the Gantt chart, and still maintain […]
Primavera P6 WBS Summary Activity and Deliverable Completion Dates
Primavera P6 Professional may not show the correct completion date of your Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) element or deliverable when filtering activities by start dates. The WBS summary activity, however, rectifies this situation. Using the bars feature it is possible to display a summary bar finish date label. However, when filtering activities via start date […]
Dissolving an Activity in Primavera P6
Is there a way in Primavera P6 Professional to remove an activity and maintain schedule logic continuity? Yes, there is. It’s done by dissolving an activity instead of deleting that activity. Schedules often require updates and changes as the process of envisioning and planning a project comes together in the Primavera P6 Professional scheduling tool. […]
Video: Deltek Acumen Fuse Diagnostics In Action
Deltek Acumen Fuse Diagnostics Video We recently published an article that shows you how to run a schedule diagnostic using Deltek Acumen Fuse Diagnostics. The Acumen Fuse tool is a one-stop shop for much of your schedule analysis during the development of a schedule. You can use diagnostics for double-checking the quality of your schedule […]
Level Resources within Total Float to Maintain Project Finish Date In Primavera P6
Do you level resources in Primavera P6? Unless you specify otherwise, Primavera P6’s default setting will allow leveling to delay the project finish date. Schedules come with deadlines; it’s one of the challenges of managing a project. So, you really do not want to delay your project more then you have to. It makes sense […]
Portfolio Management in Small Companies
“Portfolio management in small companies– that’s something only big firms do, isn’t it?” Not at all! Even small businesses can benefit from taking a portfolio management approach to managing their projects. In fact, you could argue that portfolio management is even more important in smaller companies. In these businesses, taking a risk on the wrong […]
Primavera P6 – Change Activity ID Prefix
There are differing schedule naming conventions for activity IDs. Do you know how rename your activity ID accordingly, to generate your desired naming convention? Depending on the size of the project schedulers may want to adopt a particular naming convention for their schedule activity IDs. One such naming convention says to prefix the activity ID […]