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.


Assigning Expenses in Primavera P6 | Ten Six Consulting:



'via Blog this'

How To Find Relationship Lag in Primavera P6

How To Find Relationship Lag in Primavera P6:

....
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.  ....



'via Blog this'

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.

Translate A Primavera P6 Project To A Different Language:

'via Blog this'

Monitoring Deadline Dates in Primavera P6 EPPM | Ten Six Consulting

It’s very common for schedules that have a contract deadline that does not match the project’s projected completion date. In these cases, one thing folks want to do is monitor both in relation to each other.

Projects have deadlines; it’s a fact of project management. One main value of scheduling software is that you can monitor your project’s projected completion date versus the deadline, i.e. contract completion date. Primavera P6 EPPM R16.1 does not have a deadline feature. But with a little ingenuity we can highlight a deadline date in relation to the project’s current projected completion date.

Read the full post on Ten Six
Monitoring Deadline Dates in Primavera P6 EPPM | Ten Six Consulting:


'via Blog this'

Monitoring Forecasted and Contract Completion Dates in Primavera P6 | Ten Six Consulting

Your Primavera P6 schedule has a binding outside contract constraint date that doesn’t coincide with your schedule’s forecasted project completion date. Because of this, you need to monitor both the project’s estimated completion date and the binding contract completion date on your schedule. Come along as we demonstrate the best way to describe both in one schedule.

Monitoring Forecasted and Contract Completion Dates in Primavera P6 | Ten Six Consulting:

'via Blog this'

Reasons Why Construction Schedules Fail

CPM Schedules invariably become erroneous, despite best practices, when the rest of the team isn’t pulling their own weight. The integrity of the schedule may have nothing to do with why it became useless or meaningless, or as I like to say, a recorder more than a predictor of the critical path and progress. If the project is large and has multiple prime contractors, its schedule is all the more susceptible to deprecation.

First apear on RepOne Blog

From Plan Academy

Project Constraints and the Longest Path

If you want to optimize your schedule it is advantageous to look to shorten activities that are along the critical path. But what do you do if you have a project constraint that causes your scheduling software to either display multiple critical paths or completely obscure the true critical path?

It is generally stated that an activity is critical if it cannot be delayed without impacting the schedule end date. Well, there are exceptions to every rule. And in this case the exception is that the activity may not be delayed without affecting an activity constraint date, such as a ‘Finish On or Before’ constraint date. Here the critical activity is not causing the project end date to slip, but an interim activity constraint date.

.....

Read the post on Ten Six