Here is a quick tip on my preferred method for assigning actual start & finish dates to tasks in Microsoft Project, i.e. through the Task Details Form

Do you have gaps on activity bars after the data date for activities that are in progress in Primavera P6? Get rid of the gaps with this quick tip.

Find out how to trace the driving relationship logic between activities in a Microsoft Project schedule just as you would in Primavera P6

When recording actuals or as-built details in Primavera P6, if the proper settings are not in place, you might be recording the wrong actual duration.

P6 allows us to nest activity code values into sub-levels but while there might be reasons to want to use activity codes nesting feature, I'm not a fan as nesting introduces WBS type rigidity to activity codes.

Unlike P6, Microsoft Project 2010 does not have inbuilt Number of Activities fields, so this tip shows a workaround.

This quick tip shows how you can set-up a schedule layout in Primavera P6 to display different number of activity statistics for each WBS element and invariably for the whole project.

Sorting by start dates in Primavera P6 is quite easy but there are times when two activities with same start dates but different finish dates are not sorted in the desired order.

It is usually hard to tell the working calendar of an activity in a P6 schedule when looking at a pdf but luckily, there are ways to highlight different calendars.

Learn how to quickly add new fields (columns) to a Primavera P6 Gantt Chart layout.

Are you looking for ways to reduce the number of times you have to click through prompts to assign actual dates in P6?

Learn an easy and quick way to assign multiple predecessors or successors to multiple activities at the same time in Primavera P6.

Here is a fast way to create similar activities in different P6 WBS elements.

Microsoft Excel is one of the most widely used reporting tools by Planners and Schedulers and this quick tip, will show how to highlight rows in an Excel worksheet that meet a criteria.