If you are looking for a quick way to update the progress of work on your Primavera P6 schedule or you want to describe the progress of work that has a non-uniform production rate, then you should become familiar with the different Percent Complete Types
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Accounting For Non-Work Intervals In Primavera P6
Primavera P6 has a rather useful feature that allows you to suspend work on an activity and display that suspension on the Gantt chart. Here is an example scenario. You have an excavation project to dig a trench. During the excavation process
Monitoring Near Critical Activities in Primavera P6
Monitoring near critical activities can be just as important as monitoring the critical ones. Once you have entered all your activities and activity relationships, and Primavera P6 has computed your critical path, you’ll know all the activities that have zero float. These are the activities that could
Printing A Gantt Chart In Primavera P6
Primavera P6 has some great options for viewing and printing Gantt charts that can give you the flexibility you need to meet the reporting demands of peers, senior management and stakeholders. One useful option in Primavera P6 is the ability to open
Oracle Releases Primavera P6 R8.4
Great news for the Primavera P6 community as Oracle releases R8.4. Available immediately, Primavera P6 gets a solid update to R8.4 and includes some welcome new features. Here we take an initial look
Critical Path Method: A Tale of Two Methods
The critical path is the shortest time duration in which a project may be completed. The critical path also has zero float, which means that a delay in any activity along the critical path will result in an extension of the project schedule
Understanding Staffing & Scheduling Constraints
In order for project managers to properly assign resources and develop workable schedules, they need to understand the difference between Duration, Effort, and Hours. Microsoft Project users often refer to these constraints as Duration, Units, and Work. Duration is the total amount of time that the task
Primavera P6 Activity Steps
As the title suggests, Primavera P6 allows the scheduler to model the complexity of activity tasks while maintaining the simplicity of the Gantt chart. This is done using Primavera P6’s steps function. Activity steps allow the scheduler to break down an activity into smaller units of
Oracle Releases Update To Primavera P6 Team Member Mobile App
Oracle announces the release of an update to Primavera P6 Team Member which adds new functionality to an already popular tool. Oracle Primavera P6 Team Member has a simple interface that allows team members to record status from any location. It is available as an
Earning Those Elusive PDUs
You went through a great effort to obtain the Project Manager Institute (PMI®) Project Manager Professional (PMP)® certification. My own efforts included (1) taking a PMP prep course, (2) completing the comprehensive application required to qualify for taking the exam