In this article, we'll review a real life case study for a delay claim that I reviewed and provided the recommendation for. The case study format will allow you to see what the Contractor was claiming, the analysis performed to review their claim, and whether or not the Contractor was awarded any ti

Many schedules have "interim" milestones or multiple contract milestones that are important, but aren't necessarily the last activity on the job. How do you figure out what the driving path is for those milestones? Once I tell you, you're going to have a "palm to the forehead" moment. Read on.....SO

What is a delivery method? The delivery method is the term to describe how a construction project will be "delivered" to the Owner. When someone or some entity has an idea for a construction project, they aren't limited to just "design-bid-build". Instead, an Owner has a number of different options

One of the most important features of scheduling is to have the ability to compare two schedules together. Whether it be this month's update to last month's update, this month's update to the Baseline, or comparing a delayed schedule to the pre-impacted schedule, it's critical to have the ability to

You may have noticed in your schedule that the total float appears to be calculating incorrectly. Case and point, the image below shows the finish date is equal to the constraint date, but the total float is one day (it should be zero).When I first saw this, I used to think it was a bug in P6. I use

In our "Part 1 of Cost Loading" article, we went over creating a new resource for cost loading purposes, assigning it to the activity, and adding costs to those activities. If you haven't seen that article, check it out here as we'll be referencing the schedule file that we created in that article.

So, the spec requires you to have a cost loaded schedule. You simply want to add costs to each activity and bill them as you update the project. NOT SO FAST! The process in P6 can be really confusing. Let's go through it together to put another tool in the tool-belt. OverviewThere are a few differen

As a scheduler, many times you want to send look-aheads or other schedule information out to the team, but the formatting of the excel file looks horrific. There's no "colored banding" for the WBS structure, and the team complains "this is really hard to read". You end up spending hours formatting l

You sent out an excel file of the look-ahead schedule to the team, and they've updated the progress using the excel sheet you sent out. On a big project, there may be hundreds of activities that may have made progress and it would be incredibly tedious to manually input those dates into P6; not to m

When you're all done building out your schedule, you'll want to add some sort of intelligent Activity ID system to identify the area, zone, phase, or other identifier to the activity. It's not necessary, but it can be helpful in identifying what the activity is when you're sending PDFs of the schedu

So, someone sent you a P6 file (XER is the file type) and you have NO IDEA how to view it. This walk-through will assume that you have P6 installed on your computer and will explain how to import an XER in P6.InstructionsStep 1:If someone sent you the file via email, download the file or save it to

Let's put together some simple instructions for how a Contractor can put a proper Time Impact Analysis (delay claim) together. It can be a confusing process and often times Contractors don't put them together correctly. As a result, this puts the Contractor at a disadvantage when negotiating as they

The purpose of this article is to provide some different methods for mass deletion of activity relationships in Primavera P6. Instead of individually deleting relationships, which can be very tedious, this will provide some different options to delete multiple relationships at one time.INSTRUCTIONS: