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Focus on Schedule Lag in Primavera P6
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 schedule, no more than five percent of these positive lags should exist. DCMA provides contract administration services for the Department of Defense (DoD) and other federal organizations and international partners. The organization is a key part of the acquisition process from pre-award contracts throughout [...]
Primavera P6 Visual Appeal and Formatting
Primavera P6 offers an array of visual features and formatting for its project schedules. Users can benefit from changing bar labels to highlight areas in the Gantt to enhance the analysis of the project data and timeline. This article addresses several of the useful and popular visual features that you can utilize in your Primavera P6 schedules. How to Show Text Bar Labels in the Gantt Sometimes a client wants to see the taskbar labels or text descriptions in the Gantt chart portion of the schedule. The snapshot below shows a Primavera P6 schedule without bar labels: To show [...]
Suspending Project Work in Primavera P6
The Suspend Work Conundrum When Managing Projects In a perfect world, projects are executed on time and budget (or even ahead of schedule and below cost) and have a continual run until the end goal of the project is completed and closed out. Project managers and other project team professionals know that situations may dictate otherwise when executing a project schedule. A specific activity or group of activities may be temporarily suspended, or even the project itself may experience a suspension in operations due to an unforeseen circumstance. The suspension cause can vary as much as the type of [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Primavera P6 Professional or Microsoft Project
Overview Differences between Primavera P6 Professional VS. Microsoft Project Conclusion Overview In scheduling our projects, should we use Primavera P6” or Microsoft Project? This is a commonly asked question from people in the industry. The advantages that Primavera has over Microsoft Project, that is what we are going to describe in the following lines. There are many differences between Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project. Mainly, Primavera P6 has database dependency, while Microsoft Project is file-based dependent. Primavera P6 represents enterprise software while the Microsoft Project is a Windows desktop application and then evolved to include enterprise capabilities for achieving [...]
