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Primavera P6 Release 8.2: Progress Line on the Gantt Chart Primavera P6 Release 8.2 has several tools that allow you to quickly view the status of your project against the baseline plan. Comparing the status of the project against it's baseline can be useful for understanding the success o..

Primavera P6 Release 8.2 : Timescaled Logic Diagram Understanding the status of a project's schedule is paramount to the success or failure of a project. With that in mind, project controls, planners , schedulers and project managers can all benefit from learning how to use Primavera P6 to help the..

Primavera P6 Release 8.2: TSLD with Color Coded Activity Codes   Color coding information is one of the best to organize your documents, outlines and projects. I remember when I was still in a school and would highlight useful information in my school books and notes so that I would remember ..

This document discusses the features of P6 that currently link the actual and forecast resourcecurve, while touching on some of the current shortfalls in managing resources in P6. In depthcoverage of each feature described here-in is beyond the scope of this document. Displaying a contiguous r..

Resource Management is an essential part of effective Project Management. Primavera P6 has a host of features available to help you manage resources across multiple projects. The P6 Resource Management module includes the Resource Usage Profile, which can be utilized to effectively analyze resource ..

Risks are uncertain events/conditions that have the potential to negatively (or positively) impact project objectives. Primavera P6 Release 8.2 Professional includes an integrated Risk Management feature that enables you to identify, categorize and prioritize risks, assign a responsible person for m..

Trace Logic is a great tool available in Primavera P6 that allows you to step or “trace” forward or backward through a series of activities in order to view or focus on predecessor/successor relationships. Trace Logic can be displayed as a Bottom Layout in the Activities window. The Trace L..

Increase your productivity in Primavera P6 One thing that you can always be certain of with Primavera P6, you can always learn more.  There will always be new features and functionality in each new release that you did not know existed. One question that we always hear from students in ou..

Read the original article here: http://mssprojectsanalytics.com/blog/bid/241138/5-ways-Primavera-software-helps-manage-your-projects-better Manage your projects with Primavera Software Everyone in project intensive industries know that Primavera software is the standard for effectiv..

Project Statistics Portlet in Primavera P6 R8 Primavera Software Overview Let's discuss the Project Statistics Portlet in the Primavera P6 Release 8 dashboard. Measuring a project’s statistics is one of the more crucial ways of concluding if a project is moving along as expected. Statistics al..