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There are many different methods for calculation of actual progress in Primavera P6.  These methods involve using many fields and settings, including: Duration % Complete Units % Complete Physical % Complete Percent Complete Type Activity % Complete Performance % Complete Earned Value settings of the WBS Elements I will explain Duration % Complete in this [...]

It’s not easy to find Relationship Lag in Primavera P6 project schedules. There aren’t really any features to highlight lag. But understanding how leads or lags are used on your project is an important part of really knowing your schedule.  We need a process to root out any relationship lags in P6. What’s wrong with [...]

If you missed Part 1 of Schedule % Complete in Oracle Primavera, go back now and have a read through.  Then come back here. The Proper Setup : Baselined and Cost-loaded Now let’s see how Schedule % Complete works in action on a sample Primavera P6 plan. Since Schedule % Complete is based on both [...]

Schedule % Complete is one of the many percent completes you have in Primavera P6 and we’re going to have a complete look at what it is and how it is calculated.  Two important products of maintaining schedules are planned progress and actual progress of a given time; you want to know how much you’ve [...]

Do you always document your scheduling methodology BEFORE building a project schedule? Is your schedule littered with relationship lag? Do all of your Activities have a verb in their name? Are you cautious when using Level of Effort activities? Do you know what a “dangling” activity is? Does your project plan have any “danglers”? Don’t worry, [...]

Featured this week is a great way to use Primavera P6 Reflection projects.  If you’ve perused our other Primavera P6 tutorials, you may already know reflection projects are great for working with and managing scenarios.  But they can also provide a way to preview and selectively approve activity updates from sub-contractors or other groups. The key [...]

Order is important!  Last post, we showed you the nuances of shading non-work time on the Primavera Gantt Chart.  Today we’re uncovering some more nuances of that essential Gantt Chart. Ever come across this situation where the relationship lines on your Gantt Chart point to the baseline bars?   If so, things can look a [...]

It turns out that people like pictures.  Yes, that’s right, we love pictures….and we love the Gantt Chart.  What makes the Gantt Chart so essential is that it simplifies something that is complex.  It gives us a snapshot and a trend that our brain can digest rather than just text and numbers. Getting the Gantt [...]

Although using a Windows PC has been the time-tested and traditional way to run Oracle Primavera for years, nowadays there are more options available to you.  I recently heard of a construction company rolling out tablets to field surveyors to capture pictures and data on the spot for statusing their progress on the build.  It’s [...]

Oracle Primavera 8.2 was recently released in late 2011. The release for didn’t make a huge splash as there wasn’t much new announced for P6 Professional, the windows-based version of Primavera most users are still clinging to (although Oracle would love to see them on Web Access). I suspect adoption of Primavera 8.x among most [...]