What gives? My Users… menu item is missing in action in Primavera P6 Professional. Also, my Security Profiles item too. When you’re using one of the later versions or Primavera P6 Professional, like R8.4 or later, you may have noticed that the Users… menu item has vanished from the Admin menu. So what’s up with […]
Primavera P6 Professional and Critical Baselines
Baselines are important as schedule progress is measured against the baseline. When measuring progress, schedulers will want to pay particular attention to the critical path. It may also be helpful display a P6 critical baseline path for comparison with the critical path after updates. The critical path of a schedule may change depending on the […]
Primavera P6 Professional Secondary Constraints
Using Primavera P6 Secondary Constraints. Do you want to monitor a task that can take place during a date range, i.e. during a window of opportunity? If so, here’s one way you can take advantage of the Primary and P6 secondary constraint feature in Primavera P6 Professional. Primavera P6 Professional has ‘start on’ and ‘finish […]
Leveling Workloads Manually to Achieve the Tightest Schedule Possible
In resource constrained projects the end date of the schedule is driven by the availability and assignment of resources. Leveling workloads on resource constrained projects manually helps to achieve the tightest schedule possible. Here’s a look at a few different ways to achieve this. Microsoft Project has a ‘level all’ feature that will automatically level […]
Primavera P6 EPPM Defining Baselines
One of the beauties of the Gantt chart is that it allows you to visually see the progress of your schedule. Baselines are a way to measure this progress. In Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) a scheduler can define two baselines for display on the Gantt chart. These are the project baseline and […]
Fixed Price Costs and Primavera P6 EPPM
Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM) has a systematic approach to describing and assigning activity labor, equipment, and material resources. What if the activity labor, equipment, and material costs are included in a fixed price costs? Yes, Primavera P6 EPPM R16.1 is able to define fixed price costs. A fixed price contract is a […]
Stacked Histograms in P6 Professional
Primavera P6 Professional has long had capabilities to produce some pretty decent stacked resource histograms. That being said, many folks aren’t aware they are there or have not had time to explore the capabilities they offer. This article quickly shows you how to create a stacked histogram using some simple steps. You can create a […]
Maintaining a Continuous Critical Path While Using a 24-Hour Calendar for Relationship Lag
If you set the calendar for relationship lag to the 24-hour calendar you may find in certain instances that your critical path becomes discontinuous or disjointed. To avoid this situation you can adjust your definition of critical activities. Lag modifies the relationship between two activities by inserting a waiting time between the predecessor and successor. […]
Mapping Primavera P6’s WBS into Deltek Cobra’s WBS Code Field
One of the issues with the integration of Primavera P6 WBS with Deltek Cobra is how to best use the integration to update the Cobra WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) code file with the P6 WBS. It’s an easy way to keep the WBS code file up to date in Cobra and aligning the information between […]
Adrega PI – P6 Project Compare Reporting Feature
Adrega Pi Compare feature solves many Primavera P6 reporting problems. How often have you heard the questions “How does scenario 1 compare to scenario 2?” or “What’s the effect on float between different scenarios?” Simple questions I am sure you agree, but how can you view Primavera P6 project data easily and visually compare project […]