do you make these project scheduling mistakes?
do you always document your scheduling methodology before building a project schedule? is your schedule littered with relationship lag? do…
approve updates from subcontractors using reflection projects in oracle primavera [video]
featured this week is a great way to use primavera p6 reflection projects. if you’ve perused our other primavera p6 tutorials,…
primavera p6 relationship lines point to baseline bars. why? [video]
primavera p6 relationships lines sometimes do some strange things. by now you’ve probably figured out how to turn on and…
how to shade non-workable time on the p6 gantt chart
it turns out that people like pictures. yes, that’s right, we love pictures….and we love the gantt chart. what makes…
p6 professional r8’s new user interface : a game changer
oracle primavera 8.2 was recently released in late 2011. the release for didn’t make a huge splash as there wasn’t…
how to build a lookahead filter in primavera p6
a lookahead filter in primavera p6 provides us with the ability to create lookahead reports. lookahead reports are one of…
can a p6 level of effort help define work stoppage?
typically when we develop a schedule we assume that an activity can be finished uninterrupted once it has commenced. but,…
video tutorial: activity splitting in p6 using user defined fields
primavera doesn’t have a feature to split a planned activity. it does have “suspend” and “resume” fields for statusing an…
using primavera p6 filters on export to excel
primavera’s custom activity filters are great for focusing in on a subcontractor’s work list or even to hide activities that…