A client wanted the Gantt chart to identify the remaining work performance period and mark the contract completion date. Here’s a look at how you do that. Curtains are static regions on the Gantt chart that are shaded to highlight the breadth of various time periods, such as permitting delays, acquisition delays, holiday shutdowns and […]
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Level of Effort (LOE) activities in P6 are pretty handy and sometimes not used by less experienced schedulers. If you set them up properly, they can give you a dynamic summary bar that automatically stretches from the earliest start to the latest finish of whatever work you connect to it. Once you know how P6
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We packed 35 real Primavera P6 terms into one puzzle. Some will make you nod. A few might make you Google. Let’s be honest, project controls training doesn’t always have to feel like a PMP exam. So, we made something a little different. A proper old-school word search, packed with 35 terms straight out of
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How do you create a night shift calendar for work, split over 12 am midnight? A client needed to schedule a traffic system project at night. What makes this difficult is that each eleven-hour shift spanned 12 am midnight; it began at 7 pm and continued until 6 am the next day. This can be
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The Units % Complete type is most helpful when labor resources record differing burn rates, and you need a precise assessment of achievement. Let’s take a look. In P6 Professional, the percent complete type you assign to an activity determines how its progress is defined. There are three types in P6 Professional: Duration %, Physical
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Today we’re looking at forecasting a realistic EAC with TCPI in P6. So, how does the P6 Professional scheduler accurately forecast the funds and cost efficiency required to complete an in-progress schedule? Let’s take a look. As the schedule progresses, a major duty of the project manager is to keep a watchful eye on the
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A student inquired how to create a critical task three-week look-ahead filter. Let’s take a look. A critical task three-week look-ahead filter helps work planning by isolating the upcoming critical tasks. Creating this kind of filter in P6 Professional requires understanding matching criteria within a filter. For a primer on P6 Professional filter matching criteria,
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In P6 Professional, you can plot an S-curve to review the cost distribution of a cost-loaded schedule. A project is a project; all projects share similar generic properties. Empirical data demonstrate the project attributes that drive success, which is what you want. One key attribute is the distribution of cost loading across the project lifecycle.
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A single lump-sum resource per task is an efficient way to cost-load a P6 Professional schedule. Resource loading typically involves multiple assignments of labor, equipment and materials per activity in a Primavera P6 schedule. For large projects, these multiple cost-loading assignments can become tedious and cumbersome to enter and maintain. Lump-sum cost loading simplifies this
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In P6 Professional, you can display total float on the Gantt Chart in both numerical and graphical forms. Let’s take a look. The Gantt chart, at its core, is a visual representation of the project, listing tasks vertically and time intervals for these tasks horizontally. I always tell students that the Gantt chart is the
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