A recent request asked for an efficient way to move activities from one deliverable to another in P6 Professional. Let’s take a look at how to do this. P6 Professional is about displaying deliverables and their associated activities on a table and Gantt chart. Sometimes, you want to move an activity associated with one deliverable, […]
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Primavera P6 Professional Group By – Quick Tip
Primavera P6 Professional is about displaying project deliverables and associated tasks in the activity table area, but this requires the proper table Group By settings. Let’s show you how. After one of our P6 Professional Fundamentals classes, a student asked if I could walk him through entering deliverables and associated tasks in P6 Professional on […]
Applying Activity Contingency Reserve in Primavera P6
P6 Professional Global Change tool can assign a risk level to each task and later apply a contingency reserve to adjust the task duration based on that respective risk factor. Task duration estimates may include the following considerations: Activity Attributes: description, resources, and dependencies. Activity Resource Requirements: required daily effort, availability, and skill level. Project […]
How to Backup a P6 SQL Database
Need to know how to backup a P6 SQL Database? Here at Ten Six, we get this question occasionally from Primavera P6 users, particularly if they are new to P6 or unfamiliar with databases in general and are using a stand-alone SQL database. A lot of P6 users backup by saving each individual project file […]
Calculating Worst Case EAC from Schedule Realignment in P6
Calculate the Worst Case EAC in P6 Primavera P6 Professional’s Earned Value Management (EVM) features can capture an under-performing projects key data values that are needed to forecast the total project expense, including worst case schedule realignment costs. Let’s take a look at this. Project managers need to keep a close eye on their costs […]
5 Steps For Moving to a New Project Management Tool
Steps For Moving to a New Project Management Tool Many of us in the Ten Six office started our professional lives managing projects on spreadsheets. As we moved to larger projects, got exposure to government contracts and improved our skills, spreadsheets for task tracking and project management became a thing of the past. Our non-scientific […]
P6 Professional System Administration and Project Data User Privileges
Primavera P6 Professional system administration allows you to restrict user data privileges within the Enterprise Project Structure (EPS), which is P6’s file structure system, and the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). Let’s take a further look. System Administrators in P6 Professional define Project Security privileges and assign them to differing levels of the Organizational Breakdown Structure […]
Timescaled Logic Diagrams in P6 Visualizer
Both Gantt charts and Timescaled Logic Diagrams (TSLD) display schedule network logic, but TSLD charts provide a more distinct grouping of activities by deliverable. Let’s explore this further. Primavera P6 Visualizer is a schedule graphing and comparison tool that comes as a separate module in P6. The Visualizer comparison feature is helpful for pinpointing the […]
Resetting Activity ID Numbering in Primavera P6 Professional
Resetting Activity ID Numbering in Primavera P6 Professional Often during the process of adding activities, the scheduler is left with a list of activities whose activity ID numbering scheme has a nonuniform increment. This may be a problem when trying to make a clear and organized presentation of a project schedule. The numbering ID of […]
Video – Modifying Calendars in Primavera P6
Calendars in Primavera P6, allow schedulers to specify holidays, work shutdowns, for example, bad weather days which often affect the construction industry, and specific non-working and working days of any project. Not only can working days be specified but also the actual working hours of a day can be defined. Schedulers using Primavera P6 have […]