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Can I zoom in Primavera P6?
Tutorials Jerome Odeh 15/11/2024 Tutorials Jerome Odeh 15/11/2024

Can I zoom in Primavera P6?

How do you zoom in Primavera P6 when presenting your schedule online during a Teams or Zoom call? Here is a workaround…

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Pasting Dates into Excel from Microsoft Project or Primavera P6 & the 2029 Rule in Excel
Tutorials Jerome Odeh 30/06/2024 Tutorials Jerome Odeh 30/06/2024

Pasting Dates into Excel from Microsoft Project or Primavera P6 & the 2029 Rule in Excel

Paste or enter a 2 digit year (yy) date later than 2029 into Excel and you might notice that Excel converts it into a 19yy date instead of 20yy.

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Display Number of Weeks from Project Start Date instead of Start & Finish Dates in P6
Tutorials Jerome Odeh 13/03/2024 Tutorials Jerome Odeh 13/03/2024

Display Number of Weeks from Project Start Date instead of Start & Finish Dates in P6

Steps to follow if you want to display number of weeks from the Project Start Date instead of Start & Finish dates in a Primavera P6 schedule layout.

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One way to highlight activities that are behind schedule on Primavera P6 Gantt Chart
Tutorials Jerome Odeh 04/12/2023 Tutorials Jerome Odeh 04/12/2023

One way to highlight activities that are behind schedule on Primavera P6 Gantt Chart

Learn how to set-up a layout for highlighting activities that are behind baseline finish dates on a Primavera P6 Gantt chart.

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Understanding the Logic Paths in Multi-Calendar P6 Schedules
Resources Jerome Odeh 05/09/2023 Resources Jerome Odeh 05/09/2023

Understanding the Logic Paths in Multi-Calendar P6 Schedules

This paper is a deep dive into the Multiple Float Paths calculation in Primavera P6.

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How to Produce a Report in Primavera P6 with Baseline Details for Multiple Projects
Tutorials Jerome Odeh 08/06/2023 Tutorials Jerome Odeh 08/06/2023

How to Produce a Report in Primavera P6 with Baseline Details for Multiple Projects

How to produce a report in Primavera P6 that shows baseline details, such as Baseline Name, Baseline Data Date, Assigned Baselines etc., for multiple projects in a Portfolio.

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Role of Schedule Diagnostics and P6, Powerproject & MS Project Comparison
Topics Guest Blogger 24/02/2023 Topics Guest Blogger 24/02/2023

Role of Schedule Diagnostics and P6, Powerproject & MS Project Comparison

Has the proliferation of schedule diagnostics tools contributed to successful project delivery and how do Primavera, Powerproject & Microsoft Project compare against each other?

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Filter for Primavera P6 Activities with Lags
Tutorials Jerome Odeh 15/02/2023 Tutorials Jerome Odeh 15/02/2023

Filter for Primavera P6 Activities with Lags

Here is a quick tip showing how to create a filter for activities with lags in a Primavera P6 schedule

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Connect Primavera P6 XER file to Power BI
Resources Jerome Odeh 05/05/2022 Resources Jerome Odeh 05/05/2022

Connect Primavera P6 XER file to Power BI

Turbo charge your schedule performance reports by getting your Primavera P6 data into Microsoft Power BI with this guide

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Using The Leveling Functionality in Primavera P6
Resources Jerome Odeh 27/04/2022 Resources Jerome Odeh 27/04/2022

Using The Leveling Functionality in Primavera P6

This article explains how to use the leveling functionality in Primavera P6.

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The Inner Workings of Oracle/Primavera P6
Resources Jerome Odeh 27/04/2022 Resources Jerome Odeh 27/04/2022

The Inner Workings of Oracle/Primavera P6

This paper has one of the best explanation of the different date fields in P6 with detailed explanation of the different calculations performed by P6 during each time analysis.

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P6 Professional Importing and Exporting Guide
Resources Jerome Odeh 27/04/2022 Resources Jerome Odeh 27/04/2022

P6 Professional Importing and Exporting Guide

The P6 Professional Importing and Exporting Guide from Oracle contains detailed information about P6 import and export formats and the process of importing and exporting data.

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Reviewing Resource Leveled Schedules Using P6
Resources Jerome Odeh 27/04/2022 Resources Jerome Odeh 27/04/2022

Reviewing Resource Leveled Schedules Using P6

In this must read paper, the renowned Ron Winter explains how to effectively review an automatically resource levelled Primavera P6 schedule and issues to watch out for in the review.

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How to remove suffixes from actual and constrained dates in Primavera P6
Tutorials Jerome Odeh 24/04/2022 Tutorials Jerome Odeh 24/04/2022

How to remove suffixes from actual and constrained dates in Primavera P6

Display your P6 dates without the “A” or “*” suffixes that come with actual and constrained dates. Also, display both start & finish dates for milestones.

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10 LinkedIn Profiles Project Planners and Schedulers Should Follow
Topics Jerome Odeh 14/04/2022 Topics Jerome Odeh 14/04/2022

10 LinkedIn Profiles Project Planners and Schedulers Should Follow

Are you a Project Planner or Scheduler looking for how to enrich your LinkedIn feed? Then, allow me to recommend these 10 LinkedIn profiles of SMEs and MVPs.

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An easy way to trace out of sequence activities in Primavera P6
Tutorials Jerome Odeh 20/02/2022 Tutorials Jerome Odeh 20/02/2022

An easy way to trace out of sequence activities in Primavera P6

Does the start date of an activity that has not started or finish date of an activity in-progress in Primavera P6 not look right? You might have an out of sequence activity in your schedule network, so follow this tip to easily identify the activity.

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How to display Primavera P6 dates in mmm-yy format
Tutorials Jerome Odeh 05/12/2021 Tutorials Jerome Odeh 05/12/2021

How to display Primavera P6 dates in mmm-yy format

If you ever want to exclude the day portion of a date in a Primavera P6 schedule so that you are left with only the month & year portions of a date, then this tutorial is for you.

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One way to use Expenses for lumpsum cost in Primavera P6 to generate data for S-curves
Tutorials Jerome Odeh 03/08/2021 Tutorials Jerome Odeh 03/08/2021

One way to use Expenses for lumpsum cost in Primavera P6 to generate data for S-curves

Learn how to use Expenses for lumpsum cost in Primavera P6 to generate data for use in Excel to plot progress s-curves when you cannot use resources to generate the data.

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