There are differing ways to define critical activities in Primavera P6 Professional. This may make identifying them a tedious process. Read on for a quick tip on how to quickly note critical activities in your schedule. It’s important to define critical activities in your schedule. Critical activities are those that cannot delay without increasing the […]
Changing Header and Legend Fonts in Primavera P6
If you cannot produce a legible schedule report for your stakeholders, your scheduling software has limited value to them. Primavera P6 Professional supports report fonts, but you will have to know where to look to change these fonts. Yes, it is possible in Primavera P6 Professional to change the report fonts for activities, work breakdown […]
Primavera P6: Constraints & Longest Path
This is a very popular request by many folks out there. Explaining the Primavera P6 Longest Path vs. the zero float method. The following video explains the use of the P6 Longest Path setting in the Primavera P6 Professional Scheduling Options dialog. Being able to differentiate calculating your critical path using the Longest Path method vs. […]
Primavera P6 Professional and Listing Activity Schedule Status
Using Primavera P6 UDF. There are differing ways to measure schedule progress. One way is to measure variance of start dates to the baseline. A more conservative approach are metrics to track variance of finish dates to the baseline. Regardless of your approach Primavera P6 may be programed to list task, on schedule or behind […]
Managing Weather Stoppages in Schedules
Managing Weather Stoppages in Schedules “How do I account for weather stoppages in my project schedule?” This question comes up a lot. Particularly from folks who work in a business where weather conditions can reap havoc upon your beautifully crafted schedule. The answer to mitigating weather stoppages can be a choice among several approaches. Which […]
A Short Walk through the NAVFAC IPS Checklist
A look at the NAVFAC IPS checklist. Folks, whether they are seasoned veterans or new to scheduling, often find it helpful learning from all the different scheduling guidelines that are out there. This is because there’s a lot of sound scheduling principles and wisdom that are behind the guidelines. In light of this, here we […]
Creating a New SQLite Database in Primavera P6 Professional
Sometimes it’s useful, or even necessary to create a sandbox database to play around in for your P6 Professional client software. In recent years this process has been made really easy by Primavera. This is because they very wisely introduced an P6 SQLite database option to the system. Previously one would have had to goof […]
Primavera P6 Professional and Schedule Automatically Quick Tip
Is it possible in Primavera P6 Professional to schedule automatically? I recently provided a client an updated schedule and the goods news they would meet the contract completion deadline by one week. The only problem was I neglected to recalculate the schedule. When this mishap was discovered I subsequently recalculated the schedule and found out […]
Video – Installing Primavera P6 Professional Standalone using a SQLite Database
Since the release of Primavera P6 Professional R8.4, the software abandoned its long held use of an Oracle XE database. Primavera P6 used the Oracle XE databse as its standalone solution. Instead you can now use a P6 SQLite database option for running Primavera P6 Professional in standalone mode. This one change made everything much simpler. […]
Primavera P6 Professional Multiple Float Paths
The critical path displays activities that have a total float of zero or less, which is often referred to as the longest path. But what about multiple float paths? A path that is the next longest path: i.e. near critical, potentially critical and so on? Is there a way in Primavera P6 Professional to list […]