Critical Path vs Longest Path
When it comes to your project’s Critical Path, there are few topics more important to your client. The expectation is…
How can I force an activity onto my project’s Critical Path?
Last week, I taught a Primavera P6 training course to some great folks in frosty Fort McMurray. As often happens,…
7 Ways to Grow Your Project Management Smarts
Nov 7th is the 9th annual International Project Management Day. International Project Management Day is a day to be…
Level of Effort and Percent Complete
A Level of Effort activity is used primarily to resource-load an ongoing support activity in Primavera P6 schedule. It’s a…
Graphing a P6 Resource S-Curve in Excel
In my previous tutorial in this series, I described the procedure to export resource assignment data from P6 to Excel. Most…
What is Primavera P6 Visualizer?
The new version of Primavera P6, r8.3, has been released recently, and one of the new features is a stand-alone…
Are We Ready For Mobile Updates Or Not, Primavera Users?
This week we’re starting a new Discussion feature on PlannerTuts. Each week we’ll be kicking off a discussion that is…
20 Must-See TED talks for Planning Professionals
TED.com is one of our favourite sources for inspiration and awe. If you’ve never visited TED.com or watched some of the…
Create a P6 Project Dashboard in Excel
Tutorial Files Excel Spreadsheet (Excel 2007+): PTuts_Project_Dashboard.xlsm – 1.5Mb One of our previous site manager told us (the project control…
[Book Review] Oracle Primavera Contract Management 14, BI Publisher Edition v14
2012 is proving to have set a notch for Primavera books from Packt Publishing. They have released 2 books on…
How To Link A P6 Schedule To The BOQ With Different Levels Of Detail
Tutorial Files Excel Spreadsheet (Excel 2007+): PlannerTuts_BOQ_Pay_Item.xlsx P6 Schedule and BOQ challenges A contract’s Bill of Quantities is always meant…
How To Remove Resource Costs from XERs in Primavera P6
This tutorial will walk you through a process to remove resource costs from XERs exported from Primavera P6. This comes…
[Ask Plan Academy] How To Remove Resources From A Primavera P6 Schedule For My Client?
Plan Academy, I have to send my client a copy of my schedule every month. But the client would like…
Quick Tip: Mixing AND and OR Options in Primavera P6 Filters
Building a filter where all the conditions are either ‘And’ or ‘Or’ between each row is pretty straightforward. However, if…
The Essential Guide to Printing Layouts in Primavera P6
Primavera P6 provides the ability to display project schedule information using “Layouts”. Layouts are customizable views of project information and…