by Lauren Hecker | Aug 18, 2021 | Oracle, Primavera, Primavera P6, Tips & Tricks
Most screens in Primavera P6 Professional, such as the Activities, Projects, and WBS screens, feature a table that displays specific types of data. The data shown in these tables can be adjusted, sorted, and filtered using the table columns. The columns determine what... 
by Lauren Hecker | Aug 10, 2021 | Oracle, Primavera, Primavera P6, Tips & Tricks
In Primavera P6, once you have an Enterprise Project Structure created, you can begin adding projects to that structure. A project is a set of activities and data that makes up a plan for creating a product or service. A project has a start and finish date and can... 
by Lauren Hecker | Aug 3, 2021 | Oracle, Primavera, Primavera P6, Tips & Tricks
At some point in your project, you may need to stop work on an activity for a period of time and then resume at a later date. A specific activity or group of activities may be temporarily suspended, or even the project itself may experience a suspension in operations... 
by Lauren Hecker | Jul 29, 2021 | Oracle, Primavera, Primavera P6, Tips & Tricks
In Primavera P6, activity Steps allow the scheduler to break down an activity into smaller units of work. Instead of adding additional activities to the schedule, which increases its intricacy, the activity is left the same on the Gantt chart, but given more... 
by Lauren Hecker | Jul 27, 2021 | Oracle, Primavera, Primavera P6, Tips & Tricks
When assigning resources to an activity in Primavera P6, there are several resource assignment settings that should be taken into consideration. The resource assignment calculation settings in User Preferences will affect how the duration, units, and units/time for... 
by Lauren Hecker | Jul 22, 2021 | Oracle, Primavera, Primavera P6, Tips & Tricks
Check for Current Specials When creating a project in Primavera P6, it’s generally a scheduling best practice to first create a Work Breakdown Structure, or a WBS. The WBS is a hierarchical structure that let’s you create different layouts for different stages of... 