How to Show the Baseline Critical Path In P6

All project controls professionals know how critical is it to monitor our project’s critical path. And we all know that comparing our project performance to a baseline is also essential. Most of us are doing this critical path and baseline monitoring in Primavera P6 every day. But what about monitoring our project’s critical path vs our baseline critical path in P6?

Of course, as we execute a P6 schedule, over time, the schedule will diverge from it’s baseline. The myriad of changes, out-of-sequence fixes, late or early work will be inevitable. And it will happen that those changes will also affect our original critical path.

Are we able to check our path and compare it to the baseline critical path in P6?

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Showing Relationship Arrows between Schedule Activity Bars and Not Baseline Bars

In a Primavera P6 training class last week, one attendee asked how to switch the relationship arrows from connecting the baseline bars to connecting the current progressing schedule activity bars. Once the project has been baselined and progress has been entered, you will notice that the relationship arrows are connecting your baseline bars and not the current schedule bars. How do you correct this so you can clearly see the relationships between tasks on your progressing schedule? Well, there is a simple way to make the relationship arrows connect the bars or tasks on your progressing schedule instead of the baseline bars.~

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The Case Against “Must Finish By”

When setting up a new project, the user will be faced with the “Must Finish By” option. Our advice is to leave it blank. Yes, every project has a finish date. Otherwise, it does not meet the definition of a project. That is to say, a project must be: (1) unique, (2) have a specified time frame, and (3) a defined scope of work. Unfortunately, projects often end up with a longer time frame and increased scope, but that is a subject for another day.

To review, the “Must Finish By” constraint is presented... 

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Assigning Fixed Price Costs to Activities in Primavera P6

Primavera P6 has a standard process for creating and assigning labor, material, and equipment resources to compute activity cost. What if the activity is performed at a fixed price? Yes, there is a way to specify a fixed price activity cost in Primavera P6 Professional.

A popular procurement contract type is the fixed price contract. In this type of agreement the subcontractor agrees to perform an activity at a fixed price, regardless, of the actual labor, material, and/or equipment costs. 

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