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 […]
How Do We Handle Submittals in a P6 Schedule?
Submittals in a P6 Schedule? For your construction projects, I’m sure you typically detail out your planned work activities. All the work activities such as sitework, demolition, electrical rough-in, or mechanical system performance testing? What about submittals? I’m sure you develop a submittal register and track all your product data, shop drawings, and other specific […]
Using the Progress Spotlight in Primavera P6 EPPM
The Progress Spotlight feature in Primavera P6 EPPM offers schedulers the opportunity to create look ahead reports and highlight upcoming activities in a project. It allows consistent project controlling and reporting, focusing on activities scheduled for a defined period. This can be the upcoming week, the next two weeks, month or quarter depending on the […]
The Progress Line in Primavera P6 Explained
Primavera P6 Professional has a feature called the Progress Line, which allows you to quickly view the status of your project by comparing actual progress with the Baseline. It offers a vertical, visual representation between a selected activity criterion. An example could be, the start or finish dates of current activities in a project against […]
Using Project Templates in Primavera P6 EPPM
Project templates in Primavera P6 EPPM are used to create new projects based on pre-defined Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) elements, activities, steps, and roles or resource assignments. If your organization has repeated projects or schedules similar to each other, you can save the schedule as a template and use the template as a starting point […]
Video: Managing Primavera P6 EPPM Dashboards
We recently posted an article explaining how to manage Primavera P6 EPPM dashboards, as well as how to construct portlets that form the dashboard. The Primavera P6 EPPM dashboards are great is showing a large amount of information in an easy to view way. The ability to customize a dashboard to what you need, makes […]