Tutorial Info
- Program: Primavera P6 Professional
- Version: all versions
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Time to Complete: 8 minutes
A great way to see all your resource assignment levels comparatively over time is to use P6′s Stacked Histogram chart. It’s a feature that is available in the Resource Usage Profile charting facility.
Stacked Histograms are common sight in project environments. Primavera P6′s stacked histogram stacks each bar on top of each other to give you a full view of your resourcing over time. The stacked histogram can graph either At Completion Units or At Completion Cost.
The stacked histogram offers the following advantages over Primavera’s standard Resource Usage Profile graph:
- provides a richer information than the standard resource profiles
- shows how each resource / resource grouping contribute to the overall labor in a given time period
- shows relative proportions for each resource / resource grouping
- allows you to view and analyze resource trends
- color coding can be used to highlight a resource or grouping
The histogram has some options to help you tweak it. From the options screen shown here, you can add a cumulative curve (S-curve) overlay if you like. Note that you can also use the arrow buttons to adjust the order of the filters to set them just right.
Video
The video below will walk you through the step-by-step process of building a stacked histogram in Primavera P6.
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Hi sir i need one Xer file of any big construction project which have done any where because i want to learn some thing from it. If you have please send that Xer file on my email. Thanks
Hi Mohammed.
Thanks for reaching out to us. I’m sorry I can’t provide with you any such xer files. Any XERs that I work with are the property of my clients. And they would not appreciate if I distributed them on a website. Some of our tutorials do incorporate sample xer files which are you welcome to. For example, this post includes XER files http://www.plannertuts.com/primavera-p6-tutorials/use-reflections-primavera-p6-to-merge-scenarios-32/ – see the Download area at the bottom of the post.
Warmest regards,
Michael
Thank you for the tutorial and the idea for another report for my boss and Project Management. They will definitely be impressed with the new report to use in the bid/no bid process.
Thank you very much
nice explanation
Best regards
Indeed very nice lecture on how to produce Nice stacked Histograms. Is it possible to print these Histograms/ Bottom Layout & if possible then how ?
Many Thanks, for your efforts!!