by Eastwood Harris | Nov 13, 2020 | Oracle Primavera P6, P6 Training Books, Primavera, Primavera P6 PPM
P6 has dates that are called External Dates. Do you know that they are a constraint, they may significantly change your program and may be created without you knowing?
External Dates can be career shortening if you do not know how they are created, how to find them, delete them or turn them off!
If you wish to understand about External Dates then look at this paper with is an extract from my Planning and Control Using Oracle Primavera P6 PPM book by clicking on this link>>>.
by Eastwood Harris | Oct 22, 2020 | Oracle Primavera, Oracle Primavera P6, P6 Training Books, Primavera P6 PPM
An absolute finish date may be imposed on the project using the Project Window, Dates tab. Imposing a Must Finish By date makes Primavera calculate the late dates from the Must Finish By date rather than the calculated early finish date. Click on this link to see an article on how this P6 operates
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by Eastwood Harris | Oct 13, 2020 | Oracle Primavera P6, P6 Training Books, Primavera, Primavera P6 PPM
Microsoft Project effectively records task durations in hours and the value of the duration in days is calculated from a parameter entered in the Options form.
This article is an extract from the book Planning and Control Using Microsoft Project 2013, 2016 & 2019 by Paul E Harris and explains how the duration in days is calculated, click here to read the article.
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by Eastwood Harris | Oct 4, 2020 | Oracle Primavera, Oracle Primavera P6, Primavera, Primavera P6 PPM
I was recently asked how if it was possible to calculate the non work duration of a P6 activities. I found it was not as simple as I thought it would be but I have created a Global Change that will achieve this. Click on this link to read an article on this topic>>>.
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by Eastwood Harris | Sep 14, 2020 | Oracle Primavera, Oracle Primavera P6, Primavera P6 PPM, Primavera Training Resources, Project Management Books
I am writing a new book titled 99 Tricks and Traps for Oracle Primavera P6 PPM Professional and this will be a Casual User’s “Survival Guide”. One of the new topics I will include in this book is scheduling with shifts.
The P6 inbuilt shift function is difficult to use and this article explains a simpler way to schedule with shifts in P6. Click on this link to read this article.
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by Eastwood Harris | Sep 14, 2020 | Oracle Primavera, Oracle Primavera P6, P6 Training Books, Primavera P6 PPM, Primavera Training Resources
The process outlined in this paper shows how you may simply edit an XER with Excel and import the Activity Codes, Click here for a link to this paper>>>
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99 Tricks and Traps for Oracle Primavera P6 PPM Professional
