Do you know the advantages of displaying a Primavera P6 Gantt chart late bar? Activities that have positive total float can be delayed the amount of their respective total float value without delaying the project. Activities that have negative total float are already behind schedule. The Primavera P6 Gantt chart automatically displays the activity early […]
NAVFAC Scheduling Guidelines and Positive Lag
Scheduling guidelines are very common and produced by many organizations. The Naval Facilities Engineering Command’s (NAVFAC) Initial Project Schedule (IPS) checklist item 64 says finish to start (FS) relationships should have zero lag. What is the reasoning for this stipulation? Scheduling guidelines are good to study because understanding the principles behind the guidelines increases one’s […]
Primavera P6 and Listing On Budget Status
How to use a UDF indicator data type to list the on budget status of each schedule activity. There are more than one way to track a schedule’s budget. Here we look at a way to list each activities on budget status. Primavera P6 Professional’s User Defined Fields (UDFs) are data fields that users customize […]
Procurement Management Contract Types
Procurement management is typically a major effort in the life of the project and can have huge impact on the project’s final success. As part of planning a project, the scope is analyzed to determine whether or not internal resources can do the project scope. If not, then the work is outsourced. Well, outsourcing project […]
Why Your Team Should Do Risk Management Training
Why your team should do Risk Management training. Risk management is an approach that allows organizations to improve how projects and programs are managed from start to finish. It’s a way of improving the communication channels across the business, and encourages project teams to be realistic with their estimates and scheduling. Risk management training is […]
5 Pre-Requisites for Earned Value On Projects
If you’re considering Earned Value (EV) as a way to develop better project governance, then you’ll know what an undertaking it is to shift the organizational mindset towards that way of working. Even when you have buy-in at the top levels, you still need to embed a different way of managing projects in the teams […]
Primavera P6 EPPM And The Look Ahead Spotlight
When progressing your schedule, you may want an efficient way to look ahead to upcoming tasks. Filters support looking ahead by displaying only upcoming tasks, but the spotlight feature in Primavera P6 is the most efficient way to highlight these near term future tasks. The spotlight is a standard look ahead feature in Primavera P6 […]
Questions To Ask Before You Set Up A PMO
Setting up a PMO (Project Management Office) can be fraught with difficulty. There’s the challenge of gaining executive support for creating what could be seen as an extra level of administration and bureaucracy. There’s the issue of staffing: train internal resources, buy in expertise or mix the two? Then there’s the practical problem of not […]
Deltek Acumen Fuse Schedule Diagnostics
Deltek Acumen Fuse Schedule Diagnostics Deltek’s Acumen Fuse software package offers a wide range of project analysis and diagnostic tools to help you raise the quality and effectiveness of your schedule data. In this article we will take a look at the Acumen Fuse schedule diagnostics tool and walk through the process of analyzing a […]
Primavera P6 and Super Critical Bars
Using P6 super critical bars. It’s good to note critical activities that cannot delay without negatively impacting schedule completion. But what about activities that are already behind schedule? These are your super critical tasks that require adjustment to meet project completion goals. The critical path is an important scheduling parameter; it determines the length of […]