LEOPARD PROJECT CONTROLS
Primavera P6
Melanie Calverley is an experienced professional with several years of knowledge and practice in Project Management as a Program Cost and Schedule Control Analyst on multi-million/multi-billion dollar projects, Project Controls, Strategic Planning, Engineering Planning, Earned Value Management (EVM), and Earned Value Management System (EVMS) implementation, Configuration Management, and writing/editing. She commands full utilization of Primavera P6 software, MS Project, and MS Project Server. Her career background includes industry experience in oil and gas, energy, aerospace/defense, IT, litigation, and media.
Calverley has extensive experience in the planning and scheduling arena since 1999, as well as extensive experience in the aerospace and oil and gas industries combined. Calverley has worked for the large and high-visibility players in the aerospace industry - Boeing and Lockheed Martin, as well as the large companies in the O&G industry, such as Schlumberger, GE Energy, and Chevron. She supported NASA directly and a host of smaller sub-contractors over the years before exploring the O&G and IT industries. Calverley understands the strict, organized flow of the aerospace industry's horizontal and vertical logic integration, the criticality of resource loading, and the reporting functions that support Earned Value Management (EVM). She has also participated in various audits such as DCMA audits, JSRs, ISRs, and CAM reviews. In 2013, Calverley was responsible for implementing a full EVMS in Primavera for Cameron International's (now Schlumberger) Process Systems Division across the globe. The system was fully tested and successfully implemented and run in the United States, Brazil, the UK, Malaysia, Singapore, and the Middle East.
Calverley owns her own business, Calverley Consulting, LLC, which has been operational since 2017. Calverley is also a solid writer, editor, and process flow documentation expert. She possesses a full command of the proper English language, and she is also a published book author. Calverley developed and championed multiple process flows and written documentation via policies and procedures for various well-known companies.
How to Create a Driving Predecessors Report in Primavera P6
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 reviewing the logic and the Gantt chart can be overwhelming. Creating a driving predecessors report in Primavera P6 can be a simpler and more efficient method of viewing driving activities and the critical path. Open the desired project and select the Tools tab, [...]
Primavera P6 Constraint Types
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 is to observe real-world aspects of the project more precisely. Duration restrictions are used to observe project requirements that can't be drafted into network logic. Constraints are recommended to apply after scheduling the whole project because they can override the logic and must be [...]
How to Display 4 Baselines on the Gantt chart in Primavera P6?
Creating the baseline will help the manager analyze the efficiency of the project's basic requirements of threat or opportunity. A Gantt Chart Baseline is the current plan of a project. In comparison, the Primavera P6 baseline is the screenshots or images of a project strategy. These images consist of the real dates, period, expenditures, and performance of the project. They help to measure the project plan from all perspectives. Hence, the manager will be able to understand the basis of the running project and analyze its achievement. In Primavera P6 Proficient, the user can set up and give a [...]
Removing Partial and All Logic within the Primavera P6 Schedule
Logic and the Primavera P6 Project Schedule Primavera P6 schedules can range from a few lines of schedule to thousands of lines of schedule, depending on a variety of factors including the product line or service, the industry, the type of project schedule, and more. There are situations where a Primavera P6 user may need to remove a significant portion or even all of the logic ties within a Primavera P6 project schedule. Typically, a Primavera P6 user may need to remove individual logic links between a few activities, and this is easily performed by highlighting the task and [...]
Using and Managing Primavera P6 Thresholds
Introduction to Primavera P6 Thresholds Primavera P6 allows users to track their project matters with the tool’s ability to recognize and store project thresholds. Thresholds provide a means to define parameters required to filter out specific and key information in the project schedule, and they also provide a means to compare historical data in the project schedule to future execution projects. This article will cover how to use and work with Primavera P6 thresholds during project execution. Working with Thresholds in Primavera P6 Primavera P6’s thresholds highlight concerns that may not be visible in the Primavera P6 scheduled activities. [...]
How to Maintain & Backup Primavera P6 Baseline Schedules
It is the best plan to keep the Primavera P6 database slim and clear for effective work. But it is not easy in creative surroundings. Because in such a working environment, the users have to keep a record of their projects with the help of baseline images. Hence the Primavera P6 databases will become a messy junction of numerous matters It may contain past codes, project duplicates, etc. When you will take screenshots or copy them, your P6 database will store them as an addition to clustering. And such cluster junks will affect the performance speed of the database. [...]
