Assigning Expenses in Primavera P6 | Ten Six Consulting

f you are looking for ways to assign costs to activities in Oracle Primavera P6 without creating a global resource for every item, then you may find the Expenses feature useful. A project expense can be many things: administration, travel, consulting, software, facilities, training, you name it. The Expenses tool is also ideal for project-specific material items, such as custom built items that need to be identified in the schedule, but again, don’t really belong in the resource pool.


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How To Find Relationship Lag in Primavera P6

How To Find Relationship Lag in Primavera P6:

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According to the Practice Standard for Scheduling, a document prepared by scheduling experts at the Project Management Institute, using Relationship leads or lags add significant schedule risk to a project.    The main reason is the lack of visibility of lag delays on project schedules.  Lag time is hard to identify and document – it isn’t obvious when looking at the Gantt Chart or when analyzing a schedule’s dates.   When lag time is used on a schedule, it is very rarely documented why the delay was added,  causing construction managers to scratch their heads.  ....



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Translate A Primavera P6 Project To A Different Language

From Michale Lepage at Plan Academy

Let’s get started. To demonstrate the process, I’m using a P6 project from the sample database you can install. I happen to be fluent in English and French due to my Canadian heritage (I can also skin a beaver or make maple syrup). So I will be translating the Primavera P6 project from English to French and can verify the result is acceptable.

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