{"id":29781,"date":"2015-04-08t21:01:53","date_gmt":"2015-04-09t01:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.deco-dalles.com\/?p=29781"},"modified":"2024-07-16t15:41:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16t19:41:24","slug":"primavera-p6-longest-path-conundrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.deco-dalles.com\/primavera-p6-longest-path-conundrum\/","title":{"rendered":"primavera p6’s longest path conundrum (and how to fix it)"},"content":{"rendered":"

it’s become generally accepted across many industries using primavera p6 that identifying and tracking a project’s longest path is the best method to keep your project’s deadline in sight. and we’ve discussed that here on the blog before<\/a> – that a project’s critical path identified as the longest path, rather than the path where total float equals 0, provides the clearest critical path.<\/p>\n

primavera p6<\/a> provides you with these 2 options when displaying your critical path on the gantt chart:<\/p>\n

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  1. either display the path of 0 total float, or<\/li>\n
  2. display the longest path.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    there are built-in filters that can filter your project’s activities in these 2 ways as well.<\/p>\n

    and in case we’ve forgotten, oracle primavera defines ‘longest path’ as the string of directly related activities that comprise the longest path from the data date to the last activity in the schedule. it calculates this via a process that follows driving relationships through the project.<\/p>\n

    however,\u00a0as you’ll see in the video below, primavera p6’s built-in longest path isn’t always true….but it can get truer through the use of\u00a0primavera p6’s ‘multiple float paths’ tool. please have a watch to find out how to get\u00a0a truer longest path in primavera p6.<\/p>\n

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