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 […]
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Primavera P6 Schedule Progression and Out-of-Sequence Activities
In an ideal world, activities in a schedule should progress according to the activity network logic. However, activities are sometimes performed out-of-order and in a way that violates these activity relationships. No matter how good the schedule logic might be, when the work gets started all manner of unforeseen variables come into play and it […]
How to Tie Up Those Dangling Loose End Activities
Activities (except project complete) that have no successor are referred to as dangling activities. These open ended activities are loose ends in the project that make monitoring their progress difficult. There are, however, more than one way to tie up dangling activities in the schedule. Relationships define the order and interaction between activities. The most […]
The DCMA 14-Point Assessment and High Float Tasks
Do your schedule activities have high float tasks? High float is generally thought to be a good thing. It’s like a safety margin. But it may be indicative of missing relationships. The Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) developed a definitive 14-point assessment for gauging the quality of a schedule. The intent of this assessment is […]
Removing Relationships from Multiple Activities in Primavera P6
What is the most efficient way to remove multiple relationships from multiple activities in Primavera P6? Removing relationships from an activity is possible by highlighting that activity and employing the bottom predecessor, successor, and/or relationship details to remove associated activities. This works great, but may quickly become laborious when you have to remove relationships from […]
To Shorten The Critical Path
Project Managers are typically under great pressure to complete the project in as little time as possible. It is therefore imperative that project managers become familiar with the basic techniques to shorten the critical path and the many different ways to do this. One of the primary benefits of Gantt charts is that they tell […]
What Do You Do About Out Of Sequence Activities?
An out of sequence activity is an activity that is worked in an order other than how it was originally planned. When you build a schedule with relationships, you’re not only doing so to enable the tool you’re using to
Optimizing Schedules in Microsoft Project 2013 using Finish-to-Finish Relationships
Modeling relationships between tasks in any scheduling tool requires knowledge of both the project work and how it will be performed as well as the tool. Simple Finish-to-Start relationships may not always give you the optimum schedule efficiency or allow you to model the work as it will actually occur.
Primavera P6 Solves the Start-to-Start Open Network Problem
In Primavera P6, once all the activities are clearly defined and the corresponding durations accurately estimated, the next step in the scheduling process is to define the relationships between these activities. This can be a deceptively challenging
Use The WBS Dictionary To Better Understand Your Schedule
In a previous blog I talked about how the WBS Dictionary, with its ability to map the WBS to the SOW, which opens up opportunities to better, understand your project. In this blog we’re going to be looking at one of those ways, namely how you can use the WBS Dictionary to understand