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[Book Review] Oracle Primavera P6 Version 8: Project and Portfolio Management


It’s a reason to celebrate….a new book on Oracle Primavera P6 has just been released! The selection of reference books (and authors) for Primavera P6  users are very few.  So I’m delighted when new books are published, especially this one – Oracle Primavera P6 Version 8: Project and Portfolio Management by Daniel L. Williams and [...]

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[Ask PlannerTuts]: What’s the difference between Primavera P6 PPM and Primavera P6 EPPM?


We get a lot of questions here at PlannerTuts about Primavera P6 and it’s associated software components.  Occasionally there’s a question that gets asked a lot and today, as part of a new series called Ask PlannerTuts, we’ll start sharing those questions and answers with you. Today’s question came from Gary who needed to purchase [...]

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Excel VLOOKUP Tutorial – Step by Step for Primavera P6 Users


Primavera users are also Excel users.  As many of you know, Microsoft Excel has many useful functions in different areas such as Financial, Date & Time, Math & Trig and so on. One of these areas is Look up & Reference. The functions in this area are dealt with lists, indexes and arrays and help [...]

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Take the Planners Salary Survey, Win An iPad 2


WHAT: Our friends over at Gold Group recruitment  are looking for your participation in their Planners Salary survey.   The survey is also sponsored by Planning Engineers Organization (PEO) and aims to gather intelligence about the state of the Planning industry, the salaries paid to professionals and their opinions about the salaries.  The results will be [...]

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Video: Excellerate your Updates. How to Import Your Subcontractor’s Primavera Updates from Excel!


  Occasionally we revisit some of our reader’s favourite posts from the annals of the PlannerTuts tutorial library, and today we’re revisiting a topic that is always hot – importing updates from excel.  This video tutorial was first published on September 30th, 2011 and was very popular.  Let’s take a look! Often large projects demand [...]

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Quick Tip: Descrunch the P6 Gantt Timescale For Better Printing


Have you ever printed your P6 Gantt Chart only to find that you can’t quite see the first or last milestone because they fall off the page or are cutoff?  I have. Here’s how avoid printing a scrunched gantt chart by easily expanding your timescale before you print.

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Poll: Do Planners Know Where Their Keys Are?


I was chatting with my assistant the other day (someone who has just gotten her toes wet in the big world of planning software) and she asked me, “So what kind of people are using Primavera? Do they know where their keys are in the morning?” So we thought we would ask the people who [...]

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Oracle Acquires Skire Project Management – Here’s a Sneak-Peek, Primavera User


If you haven’t heard yet, Oracle’s acquisition team has been busy.  This time it’s for You, dear Primavera user.  Oracle has acquired Skire, a California-based program management and facilities management software shop.  It plans to bring Skire’s cloud-based software offerings into the Primavera suite. Q: How will Primavera users benefit? Skire’s program and facilities management [...]

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Physical Percent Complete in Primavera P6 – the Missing Guide


There are three different methods of calculating the actual progress of activities: Duration Percent Complete, Units Percent Complete, and Physical Percent Complete. The first two are explained in the previous articles and this article will cover the last one, Physical % Complete. We will also discuss the ways of choosing the appropriate percent complete field [...]

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Primavera Inspire for SAP version 8.0 released


There’s definitely a trend that is growing steam amongst companies that use Enterprise Project Management systems like Primavera P6.  It’s integrating cost and schedule data into a single system.  We’re finally realizing that there a just too many cost management spreadsheets that get produced every time a project manager asks for a progress report. Oracle [...]

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