LEOPARD PROJECT CONTROLS
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Creating Internal and External Relationships in Primavera P6
Creating logic and relationships within Primavera P6 schedules is the glue of a project schedule’s operation and reporting capabilities. Situations occur where stakeholders require large schedules to be broken into smaller organizational entities to better manage them. In several cases, there are multiple project planners/schedulers and project managers maintaining different projects. Not only must projects contain logic networks among activities, but often compartmental schedules require delivery between two entities to be successful. Creating Internal Logical Relationships within Primavera P6 In this first example, we are going to use a sample project labeled “Part 1”. After you have opened up [...]
Export of a Primavera P6 Schedule without Costs
Primavera P6 users often run into situations where a customer or a third-party subcontractor requests a copy of the Primavera P6 schedule in the usable format of an XER file. In so many situations, this action requires the removal of the proprietary cost data. Often stakeholders will need to review the schedule; however, they do not need to see the cost data, including the pay rates and other cost expenditures within the project schedule. The process to export a Primavera P6 schedule without the cost data is relatively simple and straightforward, although it is imperative to take note that [...]
HOW TO RESOLVE OVER ALLOCATION AND STAFFING PROBLEMS
Introduction The resources or staff personnel are the overhead costs of any project or company. When we employ highly skilled personnel, the cost of project jobs will be increased. However, if we overload the workforce with multitasking, the quality of the output will decline, and the project could eventually fail. The role of project management is the most important part of any project. Therefore, time, scope, and assets or resources must be allocated correctly to avoid unnecessary cost overruns in the project. Let us focus on the staffing problem in the current projects. This article discusses the key points [...]
Primavera P6 Global Changes
Primavera P6’s global change feature allows the user to make bulk changes to project tasks, resource assignments, or project expenses. When a schedule modification requires numerous changes, this feature can be a time saver. It is imperative to take note that for a Primavera P6 user to implement global change features, he or she must have the access required to make such changes. Global change updates can only be successfully implemented if the Primavera P6 user has the appropriate security permissions enabled. In addition, the current schedule must be opened. Due to the nature of global changes, the Primavera [...]
Financial Periods and Storing Period Performance in Primavera P6
If you use Primavera P6’s Store Period Performance feature, you can track actual units and costs to date. Storing period performance records and storing the actuals for the selected financial period, along with the earned value and planned value, so that you can track the previous periods. Also, you can compare the current and future trends. Such a schedule maintains the assumption that the project is already resource loaded and baselined. It is imperative to take note that each task that you will store period performance on will require an actual start date, and you want to ensure that [...]
PRINTER SETTING OF PRIMAVERA P6 SCHEDULE
Introduction The Primavera P6 Professional is an excellent tool for managing large construction and engineering projects. One of the important aspects of the P6 is that it can handle many items, such as up to 100,000 activities in a single interspace. Project Management Many people have inquired about the printing capabilities of Primavera P6 Enterprise (PPM) and especially the printed Gantt charts. You should be excited to know that Primavera P6 EPPM has some really nice features for printing tables and charts. Printing with P6 software is almost easy and certainly results in support graphics and narrow pages. Without [...]
