Lots of project managers put time into creating a great project schedule, either working with an in-house planner or an expert contractor. They end up with a brilliant, robust and integrated schedule in Oracle Primavera P6 or another equally good enterprise project management scheduling tool. But the work doesn’t stop there. After you have created […]
Oracle Primavera P6
Primavera P6 Professional 20.12 is Released
Oracle, at the very end of 2020, released Primavera P6 Professional 20.12. What is turning out to be an annual year end release cadence for Oracle’s Primavera P6 Professional and EPPM tools, the end of 2020 was no different and closed out with a new release. In case you are new to the Primavera P6 […]
Calendars in Oracle Primavera P6 Explained
Project Scheduling couldn’t take place without a P6 Calendar making them fundamental to the Oracle Primavera P6 system. Every calculation using dates needs a P6 Calendar to work. In many ways, the P6 Calendar is one of the most fundamentally important part of Oracle Primavera P6. Problems with the dates calculated in a P6 Schedule […]
Scheduling Practice Standard Conundrums
Time and again I run into scenarios where trying to satisfy all the scheduling practice standard guidelines can leave you in a no-win situation. For the purposes of this article I’ll call these Practice Standard Conundrums – that which seeming cannot be solved without violating at least one scheduling practice standard guideline. Today I’m going […]
Oracle Releases Primavera P6 Version 17.7
This just in… Today sees the arrival of the first “on premises” Primavera P6 release for 2017 from our friends at Oracle. Officially this is Primavera P6 Version 17.7, wait 17.7? “Huh – what happened to the other six?” we hear you ask. Well, there’s been a subtle change in the naming convention: instead of […]
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. […]
Upgrading Primavera P6 Professional with an SQLite Database
Since Primavera released P6 R8.4 back in October of 2014, a standalone installation of P6 Professional can use a small, simple, SQLite database. This was an excellent change in the Primavera P6 standalone package because previously you had to either setup a Microsoft SQL Server Express database, or install the somewhat technically demanding Oracle XE […]
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 […]
Primavera P6 to Deltek Cobra Integration Warning
Have you experienced this Primavera P6 to Deltek Cobra Integration Warning? [Warning]Finish date for budget resource ENG (04/25/2017) after finish date of activity 1.2.2.1.6.1 (11/01/2016) Almost every time I attempt integration from Primavera P6 to Deltek Cobra, I see these warnings and thus my labor units and dollars come up short as a result. The […]
First Look – Primavera P6 Professional 15.1 Release
With the recent release of P6 from Oracle Primavera we see a major change in the version numbering and a number of new features. Primavera is changing the version number to the year of release, and the number of releases that year, hence 15.1, the first release this year.