What can I do if I’ve forgotten my Primavera P6 Professional password? In this 6 minute video, you learn two options showing how to regain access to your Primavera P6 SQLite password. Summary of Video Content If you are running Primavera P6 Professional using the SQLite standalone database, you have basically two options for regaining […]
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How To Perform A Top-down Estimate In Primavera P6
Performing a top-down estimate in P6. Every project comes with budget, and often with a firm fixed price or not to exceed clause to boot. As a scheduler the challenge is it make the work fit the budget. Primavera P6 Professional supports Top Down Estimating to assist you in making the project fit the budget. […]
How to Group and Sort Activities In Primavera P6
Quick Tip: Using the Group and Sort feature in Primavera P6. A student recently asked me to troubleshoot a schedule she received from a co-worker. The activity table in this schedule appeared as a pure list of activities and had no Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) elements. Well, what happened to the WBS elements? I responded […]
Video – Installing Primavera P6 Professional on Windows 10
In the following video you will learn how to install Primavera P6 Professional on a Windows 10 environment. Over the years Primavera have improved the installation process for P6 Professional, and these days it’s easier than ever. The big improvement has been in the database area. For standalone users Primavera has been offering an SQLite […]
Creating a Driving Predecessors Report in Primavera P6
Not all Primavera P6 users are aware that you can create a rather useful driving predecessors logic report in P6. Understanding the relationships between activities is important for good sound scheduling practice. In particular, you may want to know which activity predecessor among several predecessors is driving the successor. It may be difficult, even on […]
Virtual Float
Sometimes the process of updating your schedule creates virtual float. What exactly is virtual float? And is it good for your schedule? Float in scheduling is good. It’s what all proficient managers strive for. But schedule delay updates on the critical path may generate float on other paths, which is not good float. This delay […]
How To Display Time Stamps In Primavera P6
Here’s a quick tip to display a P6 time stamp in Primavera. In addition to knowing what day your activity begins, you also want to know what time of day it starts. You therefore want to display a date time stamp on your schedule in Primavera P6. Your respective activity begins on June 4, 2018. […]
Primavera P6 and Material Resources
In Primavera P6 Professional it is possible to define labor, equipment, and material resources. Material resources require definition of a unit of measure. Labor resources may be trade skills or specific individuals. Typically, the trade skill is inserted as a place holder until the resource manager assigns an individual to perform the work. It is […]
Primavera P6 and Line Numbers
If you are collaborating with other stakeholders using Primavera P6, you may want to display the Primavera P6 line numbers on the schedule layout for easy reference. Large projects, particularly, would benefit from line numbers to make for easy reference of Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) elements and activities. A layout including line numbering would also […]
How to Remove All Relationships in Primavera P6
Want to know a quick way to remove all relationships from a Primavera P6 project schedule? It is often expeditious to use an existing schedule as a template for a new and similar project schedule. Most likely though you do not want to include the relationships that may appear as a mess of spaghetti. It […]