Introduction
Primavera P6 EPPM Navigation
Creating a Schedule in P6 EPPM
Resource Management in P6 EPPM
Improving the Schedule
Recording Progress in P6 EPPM

Shortening the Project Length in P6 EPPM

In this lesson you'll learn how to alter a project schedule to view only the critical activities. how to assess the duration of activities and more.

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Before we get started in this lesson, go ahead and open the project shown here, so you can follow along. So what we've got here is a project is opened. I can see that we've got a negative six days of float which means we're going to be delivering six days late. What I'm gonna do now is just alter the project schedule so that I can see only the critical activities. Those activities that are forcing the date out to where it is at the moment.

In this case, 23rd of October. What we need to do is find six days from somewhere, so we can bring the project back on time. So I'm just gonna set the filter to critical, so I click on the button here for altering the view. And in here, I've got a filter to show just the critical activities. What that filter shows me is any activities where critical equals yes. I'm just gonna tick that and apply that to my view.

So I'm left with the activities where the critical is equal to yes or the total float is less than/or equal to zero days. So there's a number of things we can look at for shortening the project. One of the most common ways to build the length the project is to assess the duration of activity. Where I've got long activities, can we do them in a shorter time?

So if I just scroll down towards the bottom of the plan here. And I can see that some of my activities that are running off into October and August 1...

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