Is your schedule critical path incomplete or, perhaps, disjointed? There may be a number of reasons your critical path is intermittent. The solution however, may be as simple as adjusting the critical task threshold. There are legitimate reasons for gaps in your critical path. These include actual progress, which is displayed by blue bars. You […]
Primavera P6 Professional EVM Features
Primavera P6 Professional EVM Features Increasingly of late, we’ve been getting enquiries about the capabilities of Primavera P6 Professional as far as performing Earned Value Management (EVM) is concerned. Can it do it? If so, can you help us use Primavera P6 for Earned Value Management? Can I develop a DoD or DoE certified EVM […]
Assigning Fixed Price Costs to Activities in Primavera P6
Yes, there is a way to assign a fixed price activity cost in Primavera P6 Professional. Primavera P6 has a standard process for creating and assigning labor, material, and equipment resources to compute activity cost. What if the activity is performed at a fixed price? Here we show you how to assign a fixed price […]
Primavera P6 Tested Configurations Archive
Primavera P6 Tested Configurations Archive Oracle Primavera publishes a tested configurations document with every release of Primavera P6 Professional and Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management (EPPM). The purpose of the document is to inform IT professionals what versions of software should be used for a particular version of the P6 deployment. This includes, the operating […]
Using Claim Digger in Primavera P6 to Compare Project Files
Have you ever been uncertain of the differences between two separate files of your project schedule? If yes, then Claim Digger in Primavera P6 is a rather useful utility in Primavera P6 for comparing project schedule files. It seems rather trivial, but the file comparison tool in Primavera P6, called Claim Digger, is actually a […]
Configuring Deltek Cobra To Use The P6 API
Deltek Cobra has the capability to connect to an Oracle Primavera P6 database and bring data into Deltek Cobra. It uses an ODBC connection to retrieve data that is stored in the Primavera P6 database. But, it needs to use the Primavera P6 API to extract time phased data used for budgets as this is […]
Replacing Primavera Contract Management
We previously announced last March, that Oracle released three new Cloud Services Accelerators for Primavera. These Accelerators help organizations get up to speed faster with pre-configured solutions. One of these Accelerators, the Oracle Contract Management Cloud Accelerator is tailored specifically for the engineering and construction industries and offers the best opportunity for users of Primavera […]
Primavera P6 Monitoring Thresholds
Do you have a particular parameter that you want to monitor in one or multiple projects? If so, than Primavera P6’s thresholds feature can help you. Primavera P6 Professional enables you to monitor a parameter within a specified Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) element. If you want to check the status of a parameter across multiple […]
Installing Primavera P6 Professional on Windows 10
We’ve written a few installation guides over the past few years on how to install Primavera P6 Professional. This latest guide takes you through step by step, compete with screenshots, how to install Primavera P6 Professional 64-bit on Windows 10. While Windows 10 is still relatively new, we’ve had folks asking for one of our […]
Translating Microsoft Project Custom Fields to Primavera P6
Translating a Microsoft Project schedule into Primavera P6 Professional is a relatively straightforward process. If you want to include Microsoft Project custom fields in with that translation than you will have to