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.

This post is about an easy and cost effective way to prepare a simple but very effective one-page summary schedule that will always grab a manager's attention as it can fit into a presentation slide.

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.

How to highlight periods of delays, weather seasons or downtimes on a Primavera P6 and Microsoft Project Gantt chart using curtains.

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.

Ever tried working with multiple task calendars in Microsoft Project and could not understand why the durations in days or weeks were not as expected?

Do you want to show ordinal dates in a Gantt chart timeline or calendar days in the dates columns of a P6 schedule? Then this tutorial is for you.

Do you want to show ordinal dates (e.g. day 1, day 2, week 1, week 2 or month 1 etc) instead of Start and Finish dates in a Microsoft Project schedule?