Hacking Primavera P6 - Creative Solutions to Common Problems From the Primavera Community
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The document discusses the high costs and inefficiencies of onsite Primavera P6 training, highlighting learner retention issues and lack of post-training support. It advocates for online training solutions, emphasizing cost savings and greater productivity with eLearning, along with comprehensive support. Additionally, it covers best practices in project scheduling, resource management, and training functionalities available through an online learning portal.
Hacking Primavera P6 - Creative Solutions to Common Problems From the Primavera Community
- 1. Hacking Primavera P6 Professional
- 2. Michael Lepage, PMP Chief Learning Officer @ Plan Academy @planacademy Board Member – Oracle Primavera SIG Primavera P6 Consultant / Trainer Online Training Expert
- 3. Onsite Primavera P6 Training for teams: Are companies getting their money’s worth?
- 4. #1 Onsite Training is Expensive Trainer Fee $1500.00 x 6 $9,000.00 Travel Expenses $1500.00 $1500.00 Manuals / Laptops $100 x 6 $600.00 Lost Productivity 3d @ $150/hr x 6 $21,700.00 $32,700.00 Typical Training Costs for a 6 person onsite course $65,000.00
- 5. What about Learning Retention? • P6 Classroom courses try to teach you the entire project life cycle, crammed into a 3-day course. • Studies show that we remember only 20% of what we learned in a classroom after 30 days #2 Learner Retention
- 6. #3 A course manual that quickly becomes obsolete. The classroom course manual focuses on specific example projects that users don’t have access to after training. The manual loses it’s value quickly after the training is over. The trainees has no ability to recall the course.
- 7. #4 No Support after the class is over
- 8. #5 The Risks of Poor Training Untrained or poorly trained users cost significantly more to support than well-trained workers. 41% of employees at companies with inadequate training plan to leave within 1 year -- 88% of well-trained employees remain with their employer Cost to replace skilled employees -- anywhere from US $75,000 to $450,000! Average cost to recruit a professional candidate = $18,374. *American Society for Training & Development
- 10. Plan Academy An Online Training Portal For Project Controls Professionals • On-Demand Video Courses • A Library of Solutions • Support • Community of Experts
- 11. ELearning can help companies boost productivity by 50%. Every $1 spent in eLearning results in $30 of productivity. - IBM
- 12. Source: http://www.elearningonlinetrainingsoftware.com/top-10-elearning-statistics-for-2013/ Corporations save 50-70% when they replace instructor-based training with ELearning.
- 13. In April 2015, LinkedIn purchased online video learning website Lynda.com for …..(wait for it)……. $1.5 billion
- 14. On-Demand Video Courses Successfully build projects step-by- step in P6 Sequential lessons provides a clear learning path to follow Answers to user questions are easy to find and live support is available Recorded in high-quality HD Video with professional production.
- 15. Compare
- 16. Watch. Try. Practice. Learn. Each Course has a companion workshop for users to practice their skills on their own. Workshops reinforce the concepts and challenge users to experiment in Primavera P6. Users can discuss challenges and results in the Support Forums. “Practice is the mother of all skill.”
- 17. Track and Assess Learning Management System Immediate feedback on whether they have understood the concepts Our enhanced offering will allow learners to track their learning progress, store results and earn badges – providing LMS functionality. Enterprise Learning Managers will also be able to track and report on learner progress. “Plan Academy’s Online Training provides a way to grow your project management knowledge and capabilities. It’s a wonderful resource!” Gene Goykhman President, Indigo Technologies
- 18. We Teach Best Practices CPM Scheduling: Your team will learn how the CPM Scheduling algorithm works by doing examples on paper. We use examples that are not overly simplistic. Your team will get a solid understanding of Critical Path, Total Float, Free Float and the concepts of Early and Late Dates. We will discuss in-depth negative float and Must Finish By deadlines. We feel a solid understanding of CPM Scheduling is paramount to scheduling projects successfully. Scheduling Best Practices Your team will understand industry accepted Best Practices and why they exist. We will cover the use/over-use of Constraints. Your team will understand the concepts of Open-Ends. We will discuss at length how to create a completed activity network and understand principles of good relationship linking. And we will explain the proper use and traps of working with P6 Calendars.
- 19. We Teach Best Practices Analyzing Schedules Throughout the course, we will discuss topics related to analyzing schedules, including o How to filter on the Critical Path o How to use Activity Codes to filter by discipline, area or other custom needs o How to diagnose schedule issues with the schedule log file o How to build a Baseline vs Current layout o How to build a progressing layout o How to work with multiple baselines Resourcing Best Practices In the area of Resourcing, we will discuss proper resource setup, working with resource teams, tips for quick resourcing, understanding total man-hours, and more.
- 20. We Teach Best Practices Cost Management Best Practices In the area of Cost Management, your team will learn how to work with Resource Rates, how to total costs, how to total discipline costs using Activity Codes, how to use P6 special activity types to apply overhead costs, and much more. Progressing Best Practices Your team will learn about % Complete in relation to Progress Updating. We will discuss establishing a consistent updating routine. We will updating dates, resources and costs. We will also discuss out-of- sequence issues and how to fix them.
- 21. Support Primavera P6 is challenging software to use - Learners receive help for complex issues. Our experts respond to support questions and provide solution via our Support Forums Learners can ask for help on Course and Tutorial questions Questions related to using P6 in their jobs Live Support via screen-sharing is available for Enterprises – additional fees will apply
- 22. Live Support Live Training & Support Webinars are held monthly on various planning, scheduling and project management topics Guest presenters and experts occasionally will present on important topics Answer Questions & provide Solutions to Planning / Scheduling problems.
- 24. Some of our Clients
- 25. HACK /hak/ A smart, helpful, (cheap) DYI solution
- 31. hack
- 32. Hacking Primavera P6 Professional
- 33. What’s all this extra data? This XER File is really big!
- 34. Cleaning Large and Slow XER Files.1
- 35. POBS Data Extra Data Exported to XER Files Import VERY Slow V8.x “Functions related to table POBS have not been implemented yet so the table has not been put to use. The table may be removed in a future release. --- Oracle Support
- 36. POBS Cleaner VERY SIMPLE Developed by Ahmet Kochan Cleans out the Data Produces significantly smaller XER File
- 37. Demo.
- 47. Some Things Can Never Be Replaced
- 49. Make Backups.
- 50. COMMAND LINE.
- 55. What does DCMA check? 1. Checks the Logic 2. Looks for Leads 3. Looks for Lags 4. The Right Relationship Types 5. How ’bout those Hard Constraints 6. Rein-in your Total Float 7. Negative Float is Never Good 8. Break Down Those Long Durations 9. Check for Invalid Dates 10. Load it up with Resources and Costs 11. Subvert Activity Slippage 12. Critical Path Integrity 13. Critical Path Length Index (CPLI) 14. Baseline Execution Index (BEI) http://plan.rs/DCMA14
- 56. XER Reader Created by Mimoune Djouallah Macro-enabled Excel spreadsheet based on XER File Parser Does some very cool things
- 57. Demo XER Reader
- 61. DEMO XER Reader. Calendar Printing
- 63. Not on the latest version of P6, but your XER file is?
- 64. Import XERs from later P6 versions.6
- 65. Simple XER Hack To import an .xer from a newer version of P6. 8.2 PMDB 7.0
- 66. A quick edit using Notepad does the trick! Change the version of the XER file to the version desired.
- 68. How Can I log these Activity Changes in P6?
- 70. P6 Gap – No Activity Change Log Notebooks are too restrictive. Use Activity Steps to hack a basic log of activity changes Use UDFs
- 71. DEMO Change Log
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- 75. Goal 75
- 76. Goal 76
- 77. Shortlinks to Tutorials 1 – http://plan.rs/pobsclean 2 – http://plan.rs/P6Lag 3 – http://plan.rs/xerbackups 4 – http://plan.rs/XERreader 5 – http://plan.rs/XERreader 6 – http://plan.rs/xerhack 7 – http://plan.rs/stepslog