Do you review the actual performance of work that was driving the Critical Path at the start of this update period? Do you know if the Critical Path work for this update period was completed as planned, delayed, or maybe even completed ahead of schedule? Figure 1 – Current Update Critical Path The current progress […]
How to Display Line Numbers in Primavera P6
Reviewing schedules and collaborating with colleagues during meetings can be made easier using line numbers in Primavera P6. This can be especially true with large projects where Activity Id’s can be long and complex. Layouts that include line numbers in Primavera P6 are also helpful when comparing updates of a schedule. So how do you […]
How to Use the Dissolve Activities Feature in Primavera P6 EPPM
Deleting Activities Vs. the Dissolve Activities Feature in P6 EPPM There are many occasions, during the planning of a project, when schedulers have to make changes because the scope of work has changed and an activity is no longer required. Some users may just simply delete activities which no longer fit into the current project. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Simple Method for Updating Progress in Primavera P6
There is a way to make updating progress in Primavera P6 for a construction project schedule (that is used by the contractor to report progress to the owner), simple. But you need the Primavera P6 schedule developed in a way that allows this easy process for updating progress in Primavera P6. The idea is to […]
Simple Lump Sum Cost Loading in Primavera P6
Simple Lump Sum Cost Loading in Primavera P6 Developing the basic Primavera P6 schedule with activities and logic is only the first step in creating a useful project schedule. Without some method of measuring actual progress against planned progress, the schedule doesn’t add the potential value it could if manhours, units, or cost are assigned […]