Are you just starting out as a Junior Planner or Scheduler? Then here are 5 things to consider.

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.

This post is about how I set-up my Microsoft Project 2010 and Primavera P6 v16.1 so that my summary schedules present more meaningful information.

P6 Layouts & Filters are 2 of the most used functionalities in P6 and today I'll be explaining why I like saving my Layouts as Project Layouts and Filters as Layout Filters.

Today's post is a continuation of my P6 settings where I explain why I develop & update schedules with duration in hours and date format with time displayed.

In all my P6 layouts, I always enable the Details form on the bottom layout and this post is about the Relationships tab of the Details form.

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.

Trend analysis produces good graphical reports, which track actual schedule performance and provide an indication of likely future performance.

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.

Have you inherited or received a schedule and you could not understand the reason for some of the information in schedule and wished there was an accompanying document, which provided the assumptions used to build the schedule?

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?

Primavera P6 is massive and for someone new to P6, it can be daunting. Most P6 training courses will only teach you how to use P6 without any explanation on why P6 does things in a certain way and for people switching to P6 from other scheduling software, things can get really confusing.