Oracle has released Primavera P6 version 20.6 to its Cloud Members. Companies using Primavera P6 EPPM Oracle Cloud enjoy regular releases and updates to the product. These are generally released every month or so and eventually become available as an update nearer the end of the year to those customers that have on premise installations. […]
How to Backup Primavera P6 Baselines
How to Backup Primavera P6 Baselines Many Primavera P6 databases become cluttered with a myriad of items, ranging from old redundant codes to more copies of projects than are ever required in anyone’s lifetime. Whilst updating a project weekly, you may be required to keep a snapshot every time you use the ‘Maintain Baseline’ feature […]
Importing XLSX Expense Costs into Primavera P6 Professional
Importing XLSX Expense Costs into Primavera P6 Microsoft Excel is often used as a platform for the organization of project data, and XLSX data files can import to Primavera P6 Professional. This makes these XLSX Microsoft Excel spreadsheets a suitable intermediary between project team members and Primavera P6 Professional. In most organizations, only a few […]
Video: Exploring the Primavera P6 EPPM Projects Tab
We recently published an article on the Primavera P6 EPPM Projects Tab that you can read here. Several folks have contacted us wanting to know some more about the project tab and the pages associated with it, so we’ve produced a short video where you can get a feel of the capabilities and functionality of […]
Exploring the Projects Tab in Primavera P6 EPPM
The Projects tab in Primavera P6 EPPM provides the primary pages for creating and managing projects. Beneath the Projects tab, in the ribbon are seven pages; Enterprise Project Structure, Activities, Team Usage, Assignments, Issues, Documents and Risks. In this article we will explore three of the pages; EPS, Activities and Team Usage. When we enter […]
Primavera P6 User Defined Fields
Primavera P6 User Defined Fields are a great tool for expanding schedule management and analysis. User Defined Fields (UDFs) can be found in the Enterprise area drop down. Figure 1 – Enterprise Drop Down List with User Defined Fields Shown P6 User Defined Fields allow us to assign specific data types to activities. Personally, I […]
Fix Primavera P6 Reporting Challenges with Adrega Project Intelligence
Primavera P6 is a powerful project management tool. However, having an enterprise-grade project management system is made more useful by being able to do detailed reporting using Adrega Project Intelligence. Primavera P6 has built-in options for reporting, but experienced users aren’t always able to get what they need from the system. Have you felt like […]
Video: Creating Portfolios in Primavera P6 EPPM
By creating Portfolios in Primavera P6 EPPM, organizations can adopt a holistic approach by looking at the performance versus return profile of the whole project portfolio. This management strategy helps organizations prepare with what-if’s, contingencies and backup plans. Performance thresholds and tolerance levels can be identified helped by the portfolios’ gathering of real-time metrics. This […]
Create a Portfolio in Primavera P6 EPPM
If you are responsible for multiple projects, then you can group these projects and create a portfolio in Primavera P6 EPPM. The projects could be grouped by type for example, in construction you may have Electrical and Engineering as one group of projects, Energy as another and Manufacturing as another. All of these can make […]
How to Create an S-Curve in Primavera P6 Professional
Here’s a look at how you can create an S-Curve in Primavera P6 Professional. S-curves are great graphical project management tools for project planning and measuring project performance. They can show the progress of work over time and form a historical record of project trends and variations. An s-curve helps monitor the success of a […]