Faster is better. That should be Oracle Primavera's mantra. Well, in this case it is! Exporting Primavera P6 data to Excel could not be faster & easier with this quick tip.Getting Primavera P6 Activity data into Excel is essential. Excel's data crunching, grouping, pivoting and filtering is just so much easier to use than Primavera P6's. Even generating S-curves and graphs is better in
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Construction Project WBS – Examples to Get You Started
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When it comes to planning a construction project, many of us prefer to re-use elements from previous plans and schedules. But what if you're starting from scratch with no construction project examples to draw from? And are your past projects adhering to construction WBS best practices? Most project planners start building their construction schedule by establishing a Work Breakdown Structure.
Primavera P6: Download a Free Trial
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Primavera P6 Professional is likely the most-used construction project management software package around today. Now at version 18.8, project controls planners & schedulers use Primavera P6 Professional to manage construction projects big and small around the globe. The Primavera P6 download process will let you download a free trial of Primavera P6 Project Management. And we'll take you
Plan Academy Named Spring 2019 “High Performer” by G2Crowd
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Bill Gates once said "We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.”And as a budding online training enterprise, we at Plan Academy truly value the feedback of our clients. We love hearing from our students. And we always take their feedback into consideration when we plan a new course or training event.That's why we're excited to announce today that Plan Academy has
How To Import & Export Activity Layouts in Primavera P6
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Primavera P6's Activity Layouts can be a super-feature for helping you to plan, analyze, and progress a schedule. But what about exporting Activity Layouts to other copies of Primavera P6?In this post I'll show you how to import and export those precious Primavera P6 Activity Layouts.The Activity screen is where we spend 95% of our time as Primavera P6 users. Having a facility to configure
Use Primavera P6 Reflections To Merge Scenario Projects
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Reflection projects are a little-known but very handy feature in Primavera P6 Professional. A Primavera P6 Reflection project is essentially a copy of a project but with one snazzy built-in trick - the ability to merge the copied project back into the original at any time. If the genius of this trick hasn't struck you yet, it will.This merging ability was designed to help planners work with
Open Zipped XER files in Primavera P6 v18 – New Feature
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As of Primavera P6 version 18, you can now import zipped XER files directly into Primavera P6.There's no need to uncompress them first. Primavera P6 will read the zip archive directly.Check out our zipped xer files video tutorial to see firsthand how it all works....and also what doesn't
5 Things ScheduleReader Does That Primavera P6 Can’t
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I've been a fan of PrimaveraReader (or now ScheduleReader) for a quite a while. SchedulerReader is a truly great XER file viewer that fills many gaps for organizations using Primavera P6 Professional planning & scheduling software. More on that in a second.Last month, PrimaveraReader underwent a complete rebrand that had it move away from referencing the name "Primavera". Not surprisingly,
24 Project Controls Books That Every Project Controller Should Have In Their Library
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Every industry has its publications that are held to that lofty status of go-to guides, and project controls is no exception. Rather than spend valuable time weeding through the volumes that are available out there, we bring you the top 24 can't-miss project controls books that every good project controller has on their shelf. And now I've kept the promise I made on a recent webinar. Top Project
Install 2 Versions of Primavera P6 On the Same PC – NEW In Version 18
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I used to think installing 2 different versions of Primavera P6 Professional on the same PC was impossible.Well, impossible OR really, really difficult.I used to have a complicated VirtualBox setup with a huge virtual machine that would crawl along with delayed mouse movements just so I could run an older version of Primavera P6 on my PC.Of course, I would install the latest version
How to Audit Your Primavera P6 Global Activity Codes
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I had a very simple question posed to me in the Plan Academy Member's Community area recently about auditing P6's Activity Codes. It was this: How can I prepare a report to see which projects use my Global Activity Codes? ie: Can I prepare a report where I can see all the “Global Activity Codes” used in each project in my Primavera P6 database? Posted by one our P6 trainees, it was a question
5 Tactics To Get Your P6 Project Taken Seriously
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The other day I spoke with a scheduler friend of mine by phone to see how his construction project was coming along.From the moment I asked question “So how is the project going?” I could hear that something was up.“Good…. It’s fine. Things are moving.”“Still making progress?”“Yeah, sure.” He answered.But I could hear the frustration in his voice. I dug a bit deeper to see just
How To Do Rolling Wave Planning in Primavera P6
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One of the biggest challenges with building project schedules is that often you don't know the details of a piece of work but you need it on your schedule regardless.Yes, you know you need to say remediate an area once you've installed the watermain underground. But early in the project, the finer details of what that remediation might look like are scarce.Enter Rolling Wave
These Top 3 Drivers Ensure Project Success According To PMI
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The latest Pulse of the Profession® report from PMI reveals that too much money is being wasted on poor project performance.In today's world when an average of 9.9% of every project dollar is lost to lousy performance, it's time for project professionals to achieve higher results by learning to adapt, adjust and innovate.However, before you become a champion performer, you've got to
Rolling Wave Planning In P6, Adding Expenses, Matching Percent Completes & More
February 27th, 2018Our second Plan Academy Members' Mastermind of 2018 was a great session. Michael Answered submitted questions and had a live Q&A.What you'll learn in this session:How do we implement the Rolling Wave Scheduling mechanism in terms of P6 functionalities: Work Packages, Planning Packages and the transformation of Planning Packages into Work Packages?How to add
How Construction Companies Manage Communications Effectively
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93 out of 100 construction professionals agree that communication is the key to a successful project.Companies are looking to closing gaps in communication that are hindering their productivity, so they can minimize costly errors related to poor communication. The remaining 7% believes that communication is not a key factor in a project and oh boy they are so wrong.Photo When
3 Affordable Primavera P6 Companion Tools You Can’t Do Without
When: Feb 15, 2018 @ 1pm EST Duration: 60 Minutes Cost: Free TIMEZONE CONVERTER << Primavera P6 Professional is great at scheduling, but sometimes it falls down in other areas, making some tasks that should be simple very difficult for the end user. There are some great, affordable companion tools that smart people have built to help make the life of P6 users' easier. In this webinar,
How To Find Relationship Lag in Primavera P6
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It's not very easy to find Relationship Lag in Primavera P6 project schedules. There aren't really any features to highlight which relationships have lag or lead time.But understanding how leads or lags are used on your Primavera P6 project is a vital part of analyzing a project schedule.We need a process to find relationship lag in Primavera P6 schedule.And I'm going to show you
These 4 Project Controls Software Trends Will Make Waves in 2018
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In 2018, schedulers, planners & cost controllers will continue to deal with the pressures of managing complex projects amidst scarce resources, limited budgets and tight deadlines.And while most project controllers will spend their time in front of a piece of software, our project controls software is changing and evolving in our connected world.Project controls software tools play a
