This document discusses the features of P6 that currently link the actual and forecast resourcecurve,...

Risks are uncertain events/conditions that have the potential to negatively (or positively) impact project...

Resource Management is an essential part of effective Project Management. Primavera P6 has a host...

Trace Logic is a great tool available in Primavera P6 that...

Increase your productivity in Primavera P6 One thing that you can always be certain of with Primavera...

With the recent launch of the Fuse Schedule Index Calculator, we often get asked, what is the Schedule...

With the recent launch of Acumen Risk™ facilitating a team-oriented risk assessment workshop is easier...

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Acumen’s solutions offer a complete project management tool set to Oracle Primavera customers....

Acumen’s DNA is based on a belief that a sound basis of schedule is the absolute key ingredient to successful project management, a concept otherwise described as :“it’s all about the schedule, stupid”. This concept is not only what we as a company live and breathe every day, but is the drive behind our passion and razor-focus on developing software that helps the project management community improve the practice of CPM scheduling....

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Primavera P6 Release 8.2: TSLD with Color Coded Activity Codes

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Primavera P6 Release 8.2 : Timescaled Logic Diagram Understanding...

Primavera P6 Release 8.2: Progress Line on the Gantt Chart Primavera...

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Project Statistics Portlet in Primavera P6 R8

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How to Manage your risk with Primavera Risk Analysis We deal with risk different ways. Some ingore it,...

Before starting an upcoming project in the construction industry considerable thought goes into planning...

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This blog is all about understanding the Project Controls model including its guidelines, and objective and cycle

Summary

This tutorial has demonstrated the internal calculations of Primavera P6′s Duration Percent Complete field.

The most common problem in this area is that Primavera P6 does not use the intuitive formula for Duration % Complete which confuses some planners and project managers. We explained the Primavera P6 calculations and the intuitive formula side by side, to show the differences and create a better understanding of the P6 method. Finally, if you absolutely need to use the intuitive formula, try the Global Change described above.

Remember, Duration % Complete does not provide a final result; it is used in a system which provides the actual progress. You should use Performance % Complete to read the actual progresses.  We’ll cover that in an upcoming tutorial soon.

The idea of this tutorial was inspired by a question in LinkedIn forum, a planner have received a primavera schedule using WBS, as in the oil and gas industry it is very useful to have different layouts to present the schedule to different audience, and more importantly the Work breakdown structure is based on geographic area in the construction phase, and systems in the commissioning phase, the tutorial will use the APEX sample schedule to convert a WBS to activities codes, it is assumed you
have already worked with the Primavera P6 SDK.

In this tutorial we explain how to import a WBS dictionary in Primavera P6 without the SDK.   NOTE: The steps needed to transform a classical WBS presentation (which is WBS Path and Description) to a format understood by the database (which is parent / child) is covered in Steps 1 to 6 of this tutorial.

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Lookahead reports are one of the centerpieces of consistent project reporting and controlling. Lookahead reports show and highlight upcoming activities in the project. Most common lookahead reports focus on activities scheduled for the upcoming week, next 2 weeks, next 3 weeks, next month and next 3 months. Of course there are other variations and the determining factor will be the type of project being worked.  The nice thing about Primavera is that you can build a custom filter that will lookahead any period that suits your needs.

The key to a lookahead report is building a proper activity Filter. Recall that an activity Filter will show only activities that meet the Filter’s criteria – all activities that don’t meet the criteria will be hidden. Knowing how to program the Filter’s criteria is essential. And in this tutorial we’ll show you how to do it.

It turns out that people like pictures.  Yes, that’s right, we love pictures….and we love the Gantt Chart.  What makes the Gantt Chart so essential is that it simplifies something that is complex.  It gives us a snapshot and a trend that our brain can digest rather than just text and numbers.

• Program: Oracle Primavera P6 Professional
• Version: any
• Difficulty: Intermediate
• Time to Complete: 15 minutes

It’s not easy to find Relationship Lag in Primavera P6 project schedules. There aren’t really any features to highlight lag. But understanding how leads or lags are used on your project is an important part of really knowing your schedule.  We need a process to root out any relationship lags in P6.

In this tutorial we explain how to use the Oracle Primavera P6 SDK to import a WBS from Excel to Primavera P6. We are using the WBS.xls P6 SDK spreadsheet made available by Oracle Support. The SDK is a very handy tool, but the data must exactly..... 

Many people misinterpret the use of a project plan, they see it as a bar chart. It should truly be a description of the entire project baseline, scope, budget, objectives and risks. 

Proper execution of projects is often hampered by inadequate planning during the initiation phase, which...

Estimating is defined as an informed assessment of an uncertain event. For project managers, accurate...

The Project Management certifications, such as PMP, CCC, RMP, SP, CCE, EVP, and many others have become widely accepted certifications in the past several years.

Understanding the difference between Planner & Scheduler

For years the question has been, “How do organizations justify implementing or utilizing PM / PC?” To...

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Have you seen many projects completed on schedule? Neither did I. Here are a few ideas that will help.

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This paper examines the practical application of the critical chain philosophy in the project management of high value petrochemical projects.

 

 

 

 

 

Across the globe, research is being done to reduce the capital cost of power projects to ultimately reduce the cost of unit power supplied to end consumer. This paper attempts to identify one of the ways of capital cost reduction i.e., by designing and executing multiple power projects simultaneously using standardization technique. Standardization is the extensive use of processes or procedures, products or components, in which there is regularity, or repetition and a record of successful practice. Using this concept, one can maximize the benefits of design standardization and bulk procurement.

In this paper, after going through the benefits of standardization, various technical aspects are discussed, like what all facilities can have standardized design and what all can have site-specific designs depend on contract & site conditions. Planning & monitoring of such multiple projects in one of the project management tool, called Primavera Project Planner (P3), follow this. Savings in cost is explained in the form of case study, which shows how much percentage of cost can be saved, by designing & executing multiple projects simultaneously using standardization technique. Various factors, which can have a adverse impact on standardization, are also discussed in the later part before concluding this paper.