The United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has Primavera P6 mandatory requirements for the submission of all Oracle Primavera P6 Professional schedules. Let’s take a look that these USACE Primavera P6 mandatory requirements and better understand their purpose and benefits. Studying scheduling guidelines is helpful, as there is usually a wealth of knowledge and […]
Assignment Dialogs MIA in Primavera P6 Professional
Or to put it another way – Assignment Dialogs will not appear in Primavera P6 Professional I recently encountered the strangest situation with Primavera P6 professional. When I clicked on the assignment button for resources, predecessors, or successors, the assignment dialogs were failing to appear on screen. Entirely by coincidence, one of my customers called […]
Translating Level of Effort Activities from Primavera P6 Professional to Microsoft Project
A student recently asked about translating Primavera P6 schedules to Microsoft Project. In particular, moving LOE Primavera P6 to Microsoft Project. There are difficulties in translating Primavera P6 schedules to Microsoft Project. One such challenge is the translation of P6 level of effort (LOE) activities. Although we do not recommend translating Primavera P6 schedules to […]
Exporting Primavera P6 Professional Files
If you have ever considered exporting Primavera P6 Professional files you may have quickly become baffled. The number of export options are plentiful and here we explore each option. Primavera P6 Professional has seven different ways to export a file. Why so many? Each export option serves a different function. It is useful to become […]
Primavera P6 – Float on Critical Activities?
We recently encountered the perplexing situation whereby the schedule was showing float on critical activities in Primavera P6. The total float was greater than zero on some of their critical activities. How can this be I hear you ask? If an activity has a total float greater than zero, by definition it cannot be critical […]
Activity Codes in Primavera P6 Professional
Activity codes help filter, group, and sort activities by some particular value, such as project phase, location on work site, and/or responsible contractor for an activity’s completion. Yes activity codes support schedule reporting. So once you have all your deliverable Work Breakdowns Structure (WBS) elements and associated activities listed in your schedule, you most likely […]
How to Tie Up Those Dangling Loose End Activities
Activities (except project complete) that have no successor are referred to as dangling activities. These open ended activities are loose ends in the project that make monitoring their progress difficult. There are, however, more than one way to tie up dangling activities in the schedule. Relationships define the order and interaction between activities. The most […]
Primavera P6 Professional and Transferring Filters
I was asked about Primavera P6 transferring filters. My response was to suggest making the filters global then anyone in the database may access them, but she said that the filters reside on another Primavera P6 database. Yes, it is possible to transfer Primavera P6 filter files between P6 databases. Primavera P6 Professional is capable […]
Primavera P6 Professional Resource Lag Quick Tip
What if you want to delay the start of one resource working on an activity? Yes, it is possible in Primavera P6 Professional to add a resource lag. Take the following scenario: you have multiple resources working on an activity. But the start of one of those resources is delayed. You want the overall duration […]
Primavera P6 Professional Quick Tips – Setting Activity Table Graphics
Primavera P6 Professional is a great tool for monitoring project progress. It also supports reporting progress to stakeholders. Schedulers reporting progress can adjust the activity table graphics to give their schedule report a unique look and feel. Most scheduler’s find the graphics of global standard predefined layouts sufficient for reporting. We, however, have a quick […]