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How to Create a Driving Predecessors Report in Primavera P6

February 21, 2021

Primavera P6 allows users to create a driving predecessors report. Conventional methods of tracing logic and drivers allow users to understand key activities critical to the completion of a project; however, Primavera P6 has a special feature that is not tedious that allows its users to display key drivers in the project’s logic structure easily. Sometimes

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Primavera P6 Constraint Types

February 2, 2021

During the construction process, many real-life issues control an activity’s start or completion date. These issues are dealt with by the constraint feature of Primavera P6. Constraints are applied to the activities when relationships do not provide the required results and are often a result of external dependencies. Objectives The main objective of applying constraints

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Using and Managing Primavera P6 Issues

December 1, 2020

Introduction to Issues and Notebook Topics in Primavera P6 Primavera P6 users can take advantage of tracking their project concerns with its ability to store and communicate project issues and notebook topics. Issues often arise during the execution of a project, and being able to conveniently document, store, and communicate these issues to the project team can

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Managing Project Health with Complete Performance Index (TCPI)

November 16, 2020

Multiple Earned Value Indices Make Up the To Complete Performance Index (TCPI) The Earned Value Management (EVM) index of the To Complete Performance Index (TCPI) is a mathematical projection of the cost performance in a project that must be achieved on the remaining work to meet the acknowledged business goals of the organization. These agreed-to business goals

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Concepts of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Primavera P6

September 16, 2020

This article highlights Building Information Modeling (BIM) concepts, particularly about 4D scheduling and using Navisworks to integrate the Primavera P6 schedule with smart 3D models. When addressed separately, Primavera P6 is the tool used for integrated scheduling and resource planning, while Navisworks is a 4D simulation that is used to bring the project plan into a sort of virtual

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Creating Internal and External Relationships in Primavera P6

August 31, 2020

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

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Importing & Exporting XER & XML Files in Primavera P6

August 26, 2020

Although several file types can be exported from and imported to Primavera P6, two file types are the most commonly used formats. The Oracle XER format is a proprietary file format that supports all Primavera P6 project, resource, and role information. The XER format allows the user to export and import between different versions of Primavera

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Printer Setting of Primavera P6 Schedule

August 14, 2020

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

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Removing Progress from a Primavera Schedule

August 9, 2020

How to remove progress from a Primavera P6 Schedule: The following instruction shows how to deprogress a schedule and reuse the schedule for other same projects: Step 01: Add the following columns: Actual Labor Units, Actual Non-labor Units, Budgeted Nonlabor Units, Budgeted Labor Units, Activity Status. Step 02: On the calculations tab of the project Window,

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Interpreting the Primavera Schedule Log

July 27, 2020

The Primavera Schedule Log is a key function in Primavera P6 that allows the planner/scheduler to detect any potential problems in the project schedule. It is a schedule best practice to run the schedule log before finalizing and setting the baseline to a project schedule. You should also run the Schedule Log during the execution of the

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