As your business scales and you adopt enterprise project portfolio management tools, you might be looking at how best to learn Primavera P6 Professional. If you are moving to this tool, or have new starters in the team who need training, we can help. Before we look in detail at the different training options, let’s […]
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Primavera P6 Download Instructions
If you’ve never downloaded Primavera P6 Professional before from Oracle’s web site, then these rather useful Primavera P6 download instructions offer a step-by-step guide to make the whole process a lot easier. Primavera P6 Professional can be downloaded from Oracles e-delivery cloud website at the following URL: https://edelivery.oracle.com/ If you do not already have an […]
Video – Adding Activities in Primavera P6
We recently published an article showing two options on adding activities in Primavera P6 Professional. For the visual learners among you, we have also produced a short video on this subject, where we started a new project and added the Start Milestones as well as adding activities in Primavera P6. Watch the video and get […]
Importing XLSX Expense Costs into Primavera P6 Professional
Importing XLSX Expense Costs into Primavera P6 Microsoft Excel is often used as a platform for the organization of project data, and XLSX data files can import to Primavera P6 Professional. This makes these XLSX Microsoft Excel spreadsheets a suitable intermediary between project team members and Primavera P6 Professional. In most organizations, only a few […]
How to Create an S-Curve in Primavera P6 Professional
Here’s a look at how you can create an S-Curve in Primavera P6 Professional. S-curves are great graphical project management tools for project planning and measuring project performance. They can show the progress of work over time and form a historical record of project trends and variations. An s-curve helps monitor the success of a […]
Using Primavera P6 Global Change Tool to create PERT calculations for ATOM
In a large and complex schedule, large numbers of changes and assignments to activities take long time. Oracle Primavera P6 Global Change tool enables to modify some significant features and components of the activities. Activity types, resource assignments, calendars, budgeted units or other elements can be changed easily and quickly. Utilising the Melair Risk Management Tool, “ATOM”, requires […]
Commit Changes and Refresh Data in Primavera P6 Professional Explained
Understanding the Commit Changes and Refresh Data features in Primavera P6 If multiple Primavera Professional P6 users are sharing the same database and working on the same project, you will be unable to see your colleagues’ current changes to data straight away, unless they commit changes to the database. Once they have committed their changes […]
Draw Relationships in the Gantt Chart in Primavera P6
How to draw and edit relationships in the Gantt Chart The Gantt chart is at the center of most scheduling software, where analysis by schedulers and the project team takes place. The Gantt chart is popular as it offers a visual display of how a project is progressing instead of a lot of text and […]
What Are Resource Codes in Primavera P6?
Resource codes in Primavera P6 Professional give you the option to group and sort within Resource Assignments. They can help you organize, group, sort, and filter data. You can set up roles with specific skill sets, which can be used as resource assignments. You can also assign costs per unit for all these resources, which […]
Changing Column Headings, Fonts and Colors in Primavera P6
There are multiple reasons why schedulers may want to change the column headings in the Activity chart. They may want to modify the names in the column headings to gain more column width so that they can compress the column to gain more space in the table. Or, they may want to personalize the column […]