A powerful scheduling function available in Oracle Primavera P6 is the capability to use Earned Value measurement techniques to measure project performance against cost and schedule. As a scheduler or planner, calculating Earned Value within Primavera P6 allows you to monitor the project plan, actual work, and work completed value to see if a project is
In this special Tips & Tricks article we provide some handy hints on grouping, sorting and filtering in Oracle Primavera P6 to show you how to create great P6 views and reports. This month’s topic was a special request and is one of the most frequently accessed articles from our Tips & Tricks catalogue. Creating P6 views
Over the last couple of months, we have focused on Oracle Primavera Risk Analysis as one of the leading Risk Analysis tools on the market. This month we are going to change tack and move back to a core feature of Primavera P6 EPPM – the P6 mobile capabilities on offer. A lot of our users
Last month we introduced Oracle Primavera Risk Analysis as one of the leading Risk Analysis tools. The Risk journey started with Schedule Validation and a subsequent Pre Analysis Check. These actions were the first two steps in a five step model focused on developing robust schedules with a high probability of success. This month the
Many clients now require their suppliers to present robust project schedules with very high confidence levels for project success. Primavera Risk Analysis (PRA) is one of the leading tools for risk assessing your project schedules. PRA is used to perform schedule validation and embed your own risk models with fully developed risk events. The tools available
The team at Prescience Technology would like to wish all of our valued clients a Happy New Year. We start 2016 by examining some of the Team Member application’s new enhancements. The P6 Team Member suite of applications, which integrate seamlessly with Primavera P6 EPPM R15, are designed for individual users, or team members,
In last month’s newsletter, we discussed two new features available in the Oracle Primavera P6 EPPM R15.2 Activities page; the newly added Basic Gantt View and the View Resource Assignments pop up window, available when making new Resource Assignments on an Activity. This month we will expand on our introduction to the new Basic Gantt feature by outlining some
In last month’s Tips & Tricks, we discussed how analysing a schedule and resolving issues with Acumen Fuse can improve the quality of a schedule. This month we return to Primavera P6 WEB and look at two new features available in the Activities page; the newly added Basic Gantt View and the View Resource Assignments pop up window, available
In last month’s newsletter, we introduced the benefits of validating the quality of CPM schedules in a more rigorous and systematic evaluation process using Deltek Acumen Fuse. We also introduced the concept of developing schedules aligned to the ‘five stage project maturity matrix’, S1 Project Basis, S2 Critiques, S3 Risk Adjusted, S4 Optimising, S5 Team and Stakeholder. From the S1
In last month’s newsletter, we examined how to check for some of the most common schedule quality problems in Oracle Primavera P6 using the Schedule log. In this month’s newsletter we will demonstrate how to quality check the schedule in less than half the time using Acumen Fuse. Before we start, here is an overview
