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The 1, 2, 3 of Primavera P6 Baselines

Primavera P6 Professional allows you to assign up to three user baselines and one project baseline per project. The following article explains these capabilities and how they can be helpful in tracking the overall status of a project and near-term interim variance reports.Take a look at the followin

23 Jan 2018 · Emily Foster · 3 min read

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Culture and Successful Projects

Project management has a consistent and unimpressive performance record. The Standish Group’s on-going survey of project performance finds the percentage of projects that were deemed “successful” has hovered in the 25% - 30% range since 1994. Successful projects are defined as those meeting expectat

4 Jan 2018 · Alan Zucker · 6 min read

Merry Christmas from Primavera P6

From Primavera P6 with love :-) You can download the Project and the Layout from here : https://doduykhuong.com/2017/11/25/merry-christmas-from-primavera-p6/

21 Dec 2017 · Khuong Do · 1 min read

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Eliminating Waste in Knowledge Work

Many of us are "knowledge workers." We do not physically create a product. We work in areas that are important to our enterprise, but do not directly serve customers. We work in finance, marketing, technology, or similar functions.

2 Dec 2017 · Alan Zucker · 7 min read

Calculations of Summary Original Durations in Primavera P6

By Yaser A. Al-Bustanji CPCM, ACIArb, PMP, PMI-SP, PMI-RMP, November, 2017IntroductionThis article is a simple guide to understand the data stored in the P6 Original Duration fields that appear in all summary bands such as Project, WBS, Resources and Activity Codes.

27 Nov 2017 · Yaser A. Al-Bustanji · 2 min read

How to define Resource Productivity in Primavera P6 and create schedule

When create a schedule, we can based on Resource Productivity to estimate duration.For example:We have a team which can cast 10 m3 of concrete per day (This is Productivity)We have an Foundation which take 100 m3 concrete.Duration of Foundation activity will be 100 / 10 = 10 daysNow we will do it in

24 Nov 2017 · Khuong Do · 1 min read