This week’s review features one of the best articles I have read in a long time and it is from Planning & Scheduling experts, Glen Palmer and Chris Carson. You want to read about their recommended approaches to a successfully on-time delivery of projects.

When it comes to building a new project schedule, while it is very tempting to use a copy of an existing schedule from a previous project of similar scope and adapting it to suit, I would advise against it.

Microsoft Excel is a powerful analytical and reporting tool and here are 10 Excel functions I think budding Project Planners & Schedulers should be using.

This week’s review highlights the need for good quality project data and the advantages of integrating schedule & cost risk analysis. It also discusses how to prevent and expediate claims on construction projects as well as how to improve communication at construction sites.

Read about the LinkedIn discussion on the use of Time Location charts on Linear Projects & get links to a free template & mini-course on planning processes

Do you have gaps on activity bars after the data date for activities that are in progress in Primavera P6? Get rid of the gaps with this quick tip.

Here is a workaround that will ensure that your progress bars are always left of the status date line.

Is your project team struggling to follow the logic of your Primavera P6 schedule? Learn how to produce a schedule logic report that lists predecessors, their dates, relationship types, lags & driving status.

If you have ever used Primavera P6, you would be surprised that exporting from Microsoft Project to Excel does not provide you with a ready to use data.

Schedule levels refer to the details of activities in an issued schedule and should not be confused with the physical level of a schedule.

LinkedIn and Planning Planet are two of my favourite websites and here is a list of 10 people I follow on LinkedIn or look out for their posts on Planning Planet. Reading from these people always makes my day.

This tutorial outlines the steps required to display two different units of durations in a Primavera P6 schedule.

Find out how to trace the driving relationship logic between activities in a Microsoft Project schedule just as you would in Primavera P6

This post is about other blogs that I visit and would recommend that you also visit as these blogs provide rich Project Planning and Scheduling contents.

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.

Are you looking for steps to follow when reviewing a Primavera P6 schedule, then this post is for you.

Unlike P6, Microsoft Project 2010 does not have inbuilt Number of Activities fields, so this tip shows a workaround.