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 […]
Primavera P6 Professional
Displaying the Critical Path of Multiple Open Projects in Primavera P6
It is possible to work on multiple open projects in Primavera P6 at the same time. The question then becomes how do you display the critical path of multiple open projects? The critical path is a key concept in scheduling. It tells you how long your scheduled project will take. But how does Primavera P6 […]
Primavera P6 and Labor Roles
If you are currently unaware of the individual labor resource performing an activity, it is possible in Primavera P6 Professional to assign labor roles to that activity as a place holder until later assignment of an actual labor resource. Resources may be defined for labor, material, and equipment. Labor resources may be actual individuals or […]
Primavera P6 Professional File Transfer Requirements
Are you transferring a Primavera P6 schedule file from one counterpart P6 database to another, most likely from subcontractor to customer? If so, then you will want to establish agreed upon file transfer requirements to control project schedules produced or updated by counterparts. Quite often schedules are transferred between primary and subcontractors from one Primavera […]
Primavera P6 Professional and Apply Actuals
If your Primavera P6 schedule executes according to plan then apply actuals may be quick way for you to update the schedule. The apply actuals feature applies actuals entered in the Primavera timesheet system. If the timesheet system is not active, then the apply actuals feature statuses activities with resources as if they proceeded according […]
Primavera P6 Professional New Column Type
Primavera introduces a new column type in the lists category. These days, new releases of Primavera P6 largely focus the development efforts on the Primavera P6 EPPM suite (the web version). This is not surprising; Primavera P6 professional is a very mature piece of software and pretty much everything that could be done to it […]
Primavera P6 and Identifying Critical Activities
There are differing ways to define critical activities in Primavera P6 Professional. This may make identifying them a tedious process. Read on for a quick tip on how to quickly note critical activities in your schedule. It’s important to define critical activities in your schedule. Critical activities are those that cannot delay without increasing the […]
Creating a New SQLite Database in Primavera P6 Professional
Sometimes it’s useful, or even necessary to create a sandbox database to play around in for your P6 Professional client software. In recent years this process has been made really easy by Primavera. This is because they very wisely introduced an P6 SQLite database option to the system. Previously one would have had to goof […]
Primavera P6 Professional and Schedule Automatically Quick Tip
Is it possible in Primavera P6 Professional to schedule automatically? I recently provided a client an updated schedule and the goods news they would meet the contract completion deadline by one week. The only problem was I neglected to recalculate the schedule. When this mishap was discovered I subsequently recalculated the schedule and found out […]
Video – Installing Primavera P6 Professional Standalone using a SQLite Database
Since the release of Primavera P6 Professional R8.4, the software abandoned its long held use of an Oracle XE database. Primavera P6 used the Oracle XE databse as its standalone solution. Instead you can now use a P6 SQLite database option for running Primavera P6 Professional in standalone mode. This one change made everything much simpler. […]