What is Primavera P6 training? While this may seem like an odd question, you may want to think about the different number of Primavera P6 courses available today and the myriad of delivery methods. The answer then becomes a little more nuanced. If you’ve decided to take a Primavera P6 training class, it could be […]
USACE SDEF Format and Cost Loading a P6 Schedule
If you are submitting your P6 schedule to the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) be forewarned. They will require you to convert your schedule to a USACE SDEF format. And, the SDEF file format is very particular about how the schedule should be cost loaded. The USACE has a Quality Control System/Resident Management […]
Developing P6 Calendars When Planning the Project
The development of Primavera P6 calendars for your project is a critical part of your schedule development effort. This is really part of the planning stage of developing your schedule. During the planning phase, the project team should be deciding what work periods they are allowed, or plan to use. Also, they should be determining […]
Node Band Themes in Primavera P6 EPPM
Sometimes a little color makes all the difference. Let’s discuss setting a node band themes style and color features to make working in the Enterprise Project Structure view more efficient. Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) release 18.8 has an Enterprise Project Structure (EPS) data structure for organizing projects in a hierarchy. The EPS […]
Primavera P6 EPPM Roles & Role Teams
Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) has roles that are specific trade skills and role teams that are trade skills organized in crews. Primavera P6 EPPM roles come in handy in scheduling when the project manager knows that task and required trade skill to complete the task, but not the actual person doing the […]
Collaborate19
Oracle are holding their annual conference Collaborate19 from April 7- 11 2019. It will be hosted by the three Oracle community forums: the International Users Group (Quest), the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) and the Oracle Applications Users Group (OAUG) who ‘collaborate’ together to offer product solutions and support to all Oracle users. Collaborate19 is […]
How to Import a Portion of a Primavera P6 Schedule
A student recently asked if you can only import a portion of P6 schedule into Primavera P6 Professional. It is feasible to export a Primavera P6 Professional schedule to Microsoft Excel, make updates, and then import these updates back into P6. When Primavera P6 Professional exports to an Excel spreadsheet the scheduler may include a […]
Transferring Resources between Primavera P6 Databases
Transferring resources between Primavera P6 databases is not as straightforward as one would like, but with a little ingenuity it is possible. When you transfer a project between Primavera P6 databases, P6 exports and imports all the resources and associated roles currently assigned to that project. This works well to retain the projects assigned resources. […]
Tracking Deliverable Progress with the WBS Summary Activity in Primavera P6
Primavera P6 Professional supports tracking of individual task dependent activities. If you want to know the progress of the overarching deliverable for these activities include a WBS Summary activity in your schedule. Primavera P6’s WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) Summary activity appears to duplicate the features of Summary bars. Similar to a Summary bar the WBS […]
Assigning Multiple Roles To A Resource In Primavera P6
A student at one of my Primavera P6 classes recently asked whether it is possible to assign multiple roles to a single resource. Let’s take a look at this. Primavera P6 Professional has roles that schedulers use to define specific trade skills, such as plumber, pipe fitter, or pipe insulator. These roles are stored in […]