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
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How To Do Rolling Wave Planning in Primavera P6
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
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
How To Perform As-Planned Delay Analysis On A Construction Schedule
Impacted As-Planned Delay Analysis There are various ways to perform a delay analysis on a CPM schedule. The Impacted As-Planned method is one of the most straightforward analysis techniques.We will start with the As-Planned schedule; this is typically your last approved baseline or the project schedule as it was planned to be executed.The Impacted As-Planned technique is called an
Merging 2 Or More Projects, Out Of Sequence Activities, Rebaselining & More – Jan 2018
January 23rd, 2018Our first 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 to merge 2 or more projects into a single integrated one? What is the best documentation to collect from the field for updates to the schedule? Is there a way in P6 to view out of sequence
How To Perform As-Planned Delay Analysis On A Construction Schedule
6 CommentsWhen there are delays on a construction project and a delay claim has been issued, it's vital to determine who caused the delays and what happens next.Forensic Delay Schedule Analysis is broad area of expertise in project controls whereby a set of techniques are used to analyze a schedule and figure out who is at fault, whether a Time Extension should be granted and if there's monetary
What’s Holding BIM Back, P6 Resource Graphs & More – Dec 2017
December 19th, 2017In our last Genius Bar support webinar session Michael talks about BIM adoption, how to best use P6 resource graphs, along with some Q&A from our members.The 2018 Q&A Schedule is also discussed in this webinar - tell us what topics you want to learn by posting it in the forums here.What you'll learn:What Are The Challenges With 4D Scheduling? What's
How To Learn Primavera P6 Online – A Complete Walkthrough
Get an in-depth walkthrough of our training, our learning system and see how it all works.Michael & David will take you behind the curtains and reveal just how easy it is to learn Primavera P6 Project Management software with Plan Academy. You'll learn how Plan Academy's self-paced training will help you master Primavera P6 and project
P6 Resource Graphs, BIM adoption & more
Answering your requests, on Dec 19th we're talking graphs in P6, what is holding BIM back from wider adoption, answering your questions and more. Our last session of the year is going to be great!
Construction Projects: What I Saw On My Visit To London
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London is a big and inspiring city. I had the chance to spend a week there for a bit of work and a bit of play. I managed to attend 2 excellent conferences, although they are quite underelated. I attended Chris Ducker's first Youpreneur event, and then later the 7th Project Controls Expo.As I walked around the city during the course of the week, I saw lots of construction activity going on in
Trends in Project Software, Q&A – Nov 2017
November 28th, 2017In November, I'll be attending the Project Controls Expo in London, England. I'm expecting to see a number of project controls software vendors as well as to have some meetings with players in the industry. This month, I'll give you an update on what is happening in the field of Project Controls software and I'll share what important nuggets I've learned from attending the
Primavera P6 Release 17.7 Is Out But It’s A Light Update
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Quietly in July, Oracle released this year's 2nd iteration of it's Primavera P6 EPPM & Primavera P6 Professional Project Management application, release 17.7.Why am I saying this is the 2nd iteration? In 2015, Oracle committed to delivering 2 releases per year x.1 and x.2. At that time they shifted their version from version 8.x to version 15.x, seemingly jumping 7 versions in numbers. The
My Favourite Quotes About Learning On The Job
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Learning often comes with a curve that can pull you up quickly and leave you wondering if you are cut out for what you are trying to accomplish. It can be comforting, motivating and inspiring to know that people from all walks of life have felt exactly like you do. To do just that for you, I've gathered together some of my favourite quotes that are designed to encourage and support you when
Types of Schedule Delays in Construction Projects
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A 2016 report on worldwide Construction Claims states the global average value of a construction delay dispute to be a staggering US$46million, a trend that has climbed upward from 2010. The report also indicates that the average dispute took 15.5 months to reconcile. You can read the full report from Arcadis here. Although claims and disputes are the inevitable result of delays to a project, for
Review of PrimaveraReader – the P6 XER File Viewer You Didn’t Know You Needed
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In this post, I'm doing a complete review of PrimaveraReader.When it first launched, PrimaveraReader XER viewer was an intriguing alternative to importing .xer files in your database to view the contents. But the tool was a bit too new to do a deep dive. Now, having a few releases under its belt (currently version 3.5), I'm convinced PrimaveraReader is a tool that will become essential to any
How To Preview A Primavera P6 XER File’s Global Data
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This post is part 2 of our Scheduler's Guide to Primavera P6 Global Data and Project Data. If you have't read part 1 yet, go have a read. In this post, I'll show you how to preview Global Data coming from a Primavera P6 xer file.The concept of Global and Project Data in Primavera P6 is important to understand; not so much from a planning & CPM scheduling perspective, but from the view of
A Guide to Primavera P6 Global & Project Data
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I've always had difficulty explaining the concept of global and project data to new users of Primavera P6 in my training courses. It's a bit too much for some, and why should you even care? You seem to be able to use Primavera P6 just fine without any knowledge of Global or Project Data.You can, but you can also get into trouble once you start moving data around, especially back and forth
As Late As Possible Constraint: How To Use It In Primavera P6 [VIDEO]
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Ever been confused by Primavera P6's As Late As Possible constraint? If you're a still familiarizing yourself with P6's many features, you might not be sure what the As Late As Possible constraint does or when to use it.I had Avi ask me that question recently and decided to put this informative video together. I had a chance to practice my whiteboard skills and hopefully you'll understand how
How To Create a New SQLite Database for Primavera P6
I do like the ease of use of Primavera P6's SQLite database. Although there are a few of P6's features that are excluded when using the SQLite database in a standalone install, SQLite is so easy to use since the actual database is just a file and requires no database engine.But like everything, once in a while, things go left and you may need to install a new instance of the Primavera P6
Primavera P6 Certification Explained [Video]
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After so many questions about how to get certified on Primavera P6 and the confusion around Oracle certification exams, Michael has decided to clear things up with an explanation of Primavera P6 certification for users of the tool. Michael answers the following questions in this Ask Plan Academy video:How do I get certified on Primavera P6? What's the difference between a
