Which Primavera P6 percent complete type should you use and when? You’re at the point where you are ready to track progress on your schedule. But what method do you use to measure activity and/or project progress? Primavera P6 has three different ways to track schedule progress. Let’s explore the best applications for each type. […]
Primavera P6 Physical Percent Complete Progress Type and Summaries
We received a comment asking “is it possible to “roll up” or summarize physical % complete values at the Work Breakdowns Structure (WBS) element level?” Let’s explore this question. Primavera P6 Professional has three different percent complete types for measuring the progress of activities: duration, units, and physical. The ‘duration % complete’ type is the […]
Primavera P6 Resource Curves
I recently had a former student ask me how to apply a custom P6 resource curve to cost loading a task. Let’s take a look at this question. If you have a task that has a non-uniform cost loading Primavera P6 Professional has numerous default curves, including a bell-curve shape, which you can apply to […]
Options for Handling Out-of-Sequence Progress in Primavera P6
In some industries, out-of-sequence progress occurs more frequently than not. Nevertheless, it happens on even the best and most well thought out schedules created by the most experienced and skillful schedulers. The simple fact is that projects take on a life of their own once they get started, and people don’t necessarily follow schedules; rather […]
Displaying a Prime Period Gantt Chart Bar in Primavera P6
Your quality assurance inspection can take place over a specified ideal date range. Here we look at how to display this prime period date range window of opportunity along with the forecasted inspection date on the Gantt chart. Scenario Your project’s government Contracting Officer (CO) plans to be onsite the last week in September. You […]
Why You Should Avoid Mandatory Activity Constraints
If you just cannot get your schedule to match an important finish milestone deadline you may be tempted to go “thermonuclear” by inserting a Mandatory Finish constraint on the milestone. You’ll definitely get your important finish date this way, but there will be collateral damage to your schedule. Let’s explore this. If you want a […]
Primavera P6 and Displaying Activity Table Ordinal Date Columns
Primavera P6 has a feature for displaying ordinal dates on the Gantt chart. No such equivalent feature is available to display ordinal date columns in the activity table. Let’s investigate a somewhat involved but viable approach to populating an activity column with ordinal dates. Ordinal dates are a way of measuring your schedule time in […]
Hiding Resource Pay Rates in Primavera P6
A student, in one of our classes recently, asked if it’s possible to mask or hide resource pay rates in Primavera P6 Professional? Well, resources in Primavera P6 Professional are global and available to all users. This is counterproductive to the effort to keep pay rates private. However, it is possible in Primavera P6 Professional, […]
Primavera P6 and Ordinal Gantt Chart Dates
Sometimes a project you are scheduling in Primavera P6 does not have an approved start date or the start date is unknown. To avoid confusion in these situations, many folks don’t want to display calendar dates on the Gantt chart. Instead they want to plan using calendar ordinal dates. In most scheduling situations you have […]
Ten Six & Adrega Partnership to Deliver Unique Primavera P6 Reporting Solution
Ten Six has signed a distributor agreement with Adrega AS where Ten Six will sell and support Adrega’s web-based project and portfolio management tool Adrega PI (Project Intelligence). The Adrega PI Primavera reporting module has an intuitive and advanced report generator for use with Oracle’s Primavera P6. The system easily imports P6-files and generates all […]