Ever had a situation where all predecessors of an activity are 100% complete but the activity’s Start date isn't pushed to the Data Date as expected? Similarly, you might also see the activity's Finish date is much later than the it's remaining duration from Data Date? If you answered yes then this quick tip might help you trace the offending activity cause these problems. THE PROBLEM To
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Thou Shalt Not Group by WBS Alone – Try Grouping By P6 Activity Codes
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On most projects, the structure of Schedule and Cost performance reporting is based on the Project WBS and the reason for this is not farfetched since WBS is a deliverables-driven hierarchical structure. Planning tools such as Primavera P6 have a feature that enables Schedulers and Planners to replicate the Project WBS and this is why activities in a schedule are predominantly grouped by
How To Create a Predecessors Report in Primavera P6
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Usually on Projects, Primavera P6 Gantt chart schedules are presented to stakeholders as pdf files due to the obvious formatting advantage that pdf offers. Unfortunately, when reviewing these Gantt charts in pdf format, there is very little information available about the logic relationships between activities in the schedule. This tutorial presents steps to follow to create an Activity
How to Show the Baseline Critical Path In P6
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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
How To Remove Actuals From A Primavera P6 Schedule
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Though not a widely recommended practice, there are times when one might want to de-progress or remove actuals from a Primavera P6 schedule. Some reasons for wanting to return a schedule after weeks or months of progress updates to its state at Project Start are: Baseline not being set before applying actuals Wrong or no resource assignments applied when baseline was set Wrong logic
Who Changed My Primavera P6 Schedule?
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Do you work in an enterprise environment where so many people have access to the same Primavera P6 database? Have you ever wanted to find out who made changes to your Primavera P6 schedule without leaving any comments in a Primavera P6 Notebook? Here is quick tip to help you track users who made changes to your Primavera P6 schedule. Add the 4 new fields (columns) to your layout by
The One Indicator That Can Foil Your Excel Import into Primavera P6
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There is the temptation to think that because you can export a data field from Primavera P6 to Excel that you can import the same data field back to Primavera P6 after manipulating the field’s data in Excel. If you have ever imported data into Primavera P6 using Excel, you would have experienced instances where despite getting the familiar message of a successful import, some of the changes you
Cleanup Exported Primavera P6 Data for easier use in Excel
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We all export data from Primavera P6 to Microsoft Excel and sometimes we would like to manipulate the data in Excel (such as performing calculations in Excel using P6 numeric, date or cost data) but unfortunately P6 formats all data exports as text (appends an apostrophe in front of all data). Using Excel “Format Cell” function will not change the text data to the data format you require but this
