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Primavera P6 Rate Types and How to Use Them
July 17, 2025
Introduction to Primavera P6 Rate Types Primavera P6 allows the user flexibility when it comes to rate types and types of project costs. Project teams may run into situations where different rate types are necessary depending on the type of project that is being set up. For example, one project schedule may require internal costs
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Focus on Schedule Lag in Primavera P6
July 16, 2025
Introduction to Primavera P6 Schedule Lag When scheduling and planning to utilize scheduling best practices, one of the subjects that the project team will try to avoid is the subject regarding schedule lag. Positive schedule lag should be used sparingly, and although the Defense Contract Management Association (DCMA) allows limited positive lags in the project
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Essential Project Management Tools in Primavera P6: PDM, PERT, CPM, and Gantt Chart
July 16, 2025
Precedence Diagram Method (PDM) While handling complex projects with stringent multiple deadlines, the Project Manager may underestimate or even ignore the criticality of some aspects towards the achievement of a milestone and, ultimately. the final milestone of project completion. To avoid a dire situation like this, the Precedence Diagram Method (PDM) was developed. Initially, the
How to Create a New Project in Primavera P6 Using Project Wizard?
July 16, 2025
There are three ways of creating a new project in Primavera P6: Create new – Create a new project in Primavera P6 from scratch Import – Import already existing data to Primavera P6 from spreadsheets or Microsoft Project Copy/Paste – Duplicate existing data from an already existing project In this blog, we will go through how to create a
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Essential Project Management Tools in MS Project: PDM, PERT, CPM, and Gantt Chart
July 16, 2025
Precedence Diagram Method (PDM): While handling complex projects with stringent multiple deadlines there is always a possibility that the Project Manager may underestimate or even ignore the criticality of some aspects towards the achievement of a milestone and ultimately the final milestone of project completion. In an attempt to avoid a dire situation like this,
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Earned Value Management in Primavera P6
July 15, 2025
Earned Value Management compares project current actuals against project baseline schedule values. The best way to measure the project’s true performance status is by comparing actuals to date to the approved baseline. A project KPIs can be measured from cost or labor units/hours. A project’s progress can be well justified if cost is also considered accordingly.
Work Breakdown Structure in Primavera P6
July 15, 2025
A Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) is a hierarchical subdivision of the project deliverables and project work into smaller, more manageable components. It helps the user to divide a project into logical pieces for the purpose of planning, managing, and controlling the project. In Primavera P6, WBS enables the user to organize the schedule into meaningful
Estimate to Complete (ETC) Calculation in P6 with Different Scenarios
July 15, 2025
Earned Value Management (EVM) offers project KPIs, which in turn help in the estimation of the balance cost to complete. Therefore, EVM is the best tool for project cost control. Regarding Earned Value Analysis, Oracle Primavera P6 calculates most of the values automatically for a resource-loaded schedule. Estimate to Complete (ETC) calculations require some user inputs
Storing and Reviewing Period Performance in Primavera P6
July 15, 2025
Primavera P6 by default accumulates progress and costs from the actual start date of the activity till the Data Date (the date up to which the progress has been updated) and reports only cumulative progress and costs. For example, Every project manager is keen to know the periodic project performance so that the shortcomings are highlighted and
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Updating All Activity IDs in Primavera P6 with Excel
July 15, 2025
Creating a professional Oracle Primavera P6 schedule involves aligning your activity IDs with some client guidelines or made-in standards. These guidelines or standards vary a lot from one client to another one. Let’s say that you have created a schedule of +1000 activities and you need to meet some new guidelines from your client on how to
