Primavera P6 Professional may not show the correct completion date of your Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) element or deliverable when filtering activities by start dates. The WBS summary activity, however, rectifies this situation. Using the bars feature it is possible to display a summary bar finish date label. However, when filtering activities via start date […]
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Primavera P6 Professional Quick Tips – Setting Activity Table Graphics
Primavera P6 Professional is a great tool for monitoring project progress. It also supports reporting progress to stakeholders. Schedulers reporting progress can adjust the activity table graphics to give their schedule report a unique look and feel. Most scheduler’s find the graphics of global standard predefined layouts sufficient for reporting. We, however, have a quick […]
Mapping Primavera P6’s WBS into Deltek Cobra’s WBS Code Field
One of the issues with the integration of Primavera P6 WBS with Deltek Cobra is how to best use the integration to update the Cobra WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) code file with the P6 WBS. It’s an easy way to keep the WBS code file up to date in Cobra and aligning the information between […]
Deltek Cobra and Variance Fields
Setting up variance fields in Deltek Cobra to track, analyze, and report variances is done at the beginning of the project set up. Deltek Cobra will allow you to define the negotiated variance thresholds, identify trends, run format 5 reports and even maintain the prior month’s variance analysis within Cobra for future reporting. Setting up […]
Primavera P6 Physical Percent Complete Progress Type and Summaries
We received a comment asking “is it possible to “roll up” or summarize physical % complete values at the Work Breakdowns Structure (WBS) element level?” Let’s explore this question. Primavera P6 Professional has three different percent complete types for measuring the progress of activities: duration, units, and physical. The ‘duration % complete’ type is the […]
Using Reflections in Primavera P6 Professional
Are you looking to experiment with schedule changes in a way that allows you to later decide whether or not to make those changes permanent? If so, you may want to become familiar with a pretty cool P6 feature. Primavera P6 reflections. Reflection is a feature in Primavera P6 Professional that provides you a way […]
Video – Creating a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) in Primavera P6
One of the first steps in planning a project is to break down the project by its major deliverables, i.e. the product or service components. An organized hierarchical break down or decomposition of all the deliverables is known as the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). After you have created the WBS in Primavera P6, you then […]
What are the Possible Reasons for a TCPI vs. CPI Variance?
TCPI vs. CPI Understanding TCPI vs. CPI Variance. In Earned Value Management, a typical part of the monthly cycle is to perform an analysis on the realism of the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) forecasts. A quick way of judging how realistic the forecast is to perform a TCPI to cumulative CPI analysis at the WBS […]
Primavera P6 Professional and the Split Screen
Do you know how to make the Primavera P6 split screen work so that you can simultaneously view and make changes to both your Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) and activities table? If not, then read on. Primavera P6 Professional prides itself in being a top-down scheduling tool where you first focus on defining your deliverables, […]
The Primavera P6 Professional Work Breakdown Structure Chart View
The Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), in a nutshell, is a hierarchical decomposition of project deliverables. Primavera P6 has a WBS Gantt chart view that provides the standard interface for defining and editing WBS elements. But did you know that Primavera P6 Professional also has a WBS Chart view that is more suited to displaying and/or […]