Quickly identify issues using P6-QA after Primavera P6 Updates
Take a look at this mini clip to watch a brief demonstration showing how to use the P6-QA tool to quickly identify any issues in a Primavera P6 schedule after doing updates.
The P6-QA tool is a custom Primavera P6 add-on tool that was developed by Emerald Associates to remove the burden of manual schedule and business process analysis. This cost-effective tool automatically identifies any deficiencies in Primavera P6 schedules based on scheduling best practices and industry standards such as the Defense Contract Management Agency’s (DCMA) 14-point assessment, as well as user-introduced business process requirements. Integrating directly into Primavera P6, the P6-QA tool allows users to create quality schedules faster, improving your team’s speed and accuracy, and making the user experience that much smoother. Analysis and feedback are available at all levels in Primavera P6, so that you can ensure effective schedule quality control. Empower your scheduling team, refine scheduling quality, and improve business process adherence with Emerald’s P6-QA tool.
on Thursday, 01 February 2024.
Your P6-QA metrics are now available in Power BI reports. You can also create custom reports via our P6-Reporter tool in your corporate dashboards. These reports include time based metrics to help you see where in your project these quality issues exist.
Written by James Andrade
Your P6-QA metrics are now available in Power BI reports. You can also create custom reports via our P6-Reporter tool in your corporate dashboards. These reports include time based metrics to help you see where in your project these quality issues exist.
New Features
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New UDFs to show variances and calculated values - P6-QA may report that you have activities that are overdue for updating, but are they over by 2 days or 2 months? And what is your project's critical path length index (CPLI) exactly? Now you can view these metrics right in P6 to know how close they are to your target values.
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Indicators for resource assignments - P6-QA has reported you have resource assignments that are missing roles, actuals or perhaps are over budget. In this release, we've added indicator UDFs. P6-QA populates them to let you find the affected resource assignment with ease.
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P6-Reporter Ready - We've added custom tables to our P6-Reporter tool that neatly arrange your P6-QA data, including all of the inspection details, so it's ready to be put into the reporting software of your choice.
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P6-QA statistics can now be pushed into time-based graphics. Being able to critique different portions of your schedule to get a much better idea of the risks and timing of those risks.
on Tuesday, 30 January 2024.
Posted in News, P6-QA
Client Moves Their Primavera P6 to the Emerald Cloud and Uses EAI Custom Tools
Client Overview
Client is and engineering and environmental consulting firm, that diversifies services to strengthen core competencies in complex, multidiscipline work. They are the largest Power Delivery detail designer in the US, Top 5 in Power (Generation + Power Delivery), have 10+ years as Top 10 Food & Beverage Engineering firm and are a Top 200 Environmental firm.
Challenges
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The client wanted to move their in-house Primavera P6 environment to a cloud option with full time support.
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Internal IT was overloaded with other initiatives and lacked expertise in maintaining their Primavera P6 environment.
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They required the ability to maintain and analyze their Primavera P6 data in an easy, reliable manner.
Results
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Their Primavera was moved to the Emerald hosting environment, which allowed Emerald to become their full time host and support model.
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Emerald provides expertise in Primavera and provides complete support for their Primavera databases.
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As part of Emerald hosting the environment, we also provide Emerald tools like P6-Loader to create and maintain data, P6-QA for schedule quality analysis, P6-Reporter for schedule reporting and P6-Auditor for monitoring the changes in their databases.
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on Friday, 05 May 2023.
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Your P6-QA metrics are now available in Power BI reports. You can also create custom reports via our P6-Reporter tool.
Written by James Andrade - Integration Specialist
on Monday, 21 November 2022.
Posted in All Articles, P6-QA, P6-Reporter
Custom checks created in P6-QA helped client
Helping Client Users Self-Monitor Schedule Quality
Written by Sue Hopkins
Client Overview
Client is an employee-owned, multi-disciplined engineering, planning, architectural, and environmental services firm in the United States. With nearly 700 employees spread between more than 30 offices in 12 states, they offer a wide range of services with a focus on aviation, construction, facilities design, federal, power, transportation, survey, and water. They sit in the top 150 of the Engineering News-Record's prestigious Top 500 Design Firms list, while Zweig Group has recognized the client as a best firm to work for in the multi-discipline category for six consecutive years.
Challenges
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Needed a solution to coach their client users on scheduling best practices
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Users required a way to monitor the quality of their schedules while creating schedules, as well as when they were in-flight
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A specific set of quality checks were needed based on contract requirements and general quality guidelines
Results
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Emerald Associates built additional checks and a custom report focusing on what was of importance to their team
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P6-QA deployed on all databases to monitor project quality using out-of-the-box functions and customized checks
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The DOT users are able to self-monitor their schedules without constant assistance from the firm saving countless hours of consulting time
Transportation Case Studies
on Monday, 11 July 2022.
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Our latest version of P6-QA brings specific highlights to the GOA and Naval Air Scheduling quality standard metrics.
The latest version of the P6-QA tool from the team here at Emerald Associates brings with it specific highlights to the Government of Accountability (GOA) and Naval Air Scheduling quality standard metrics.
New Features
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New quality metrics for GOA - Government of Accountability quality standards
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New quality metrics notebooks for GOA - Government of Accountability quality standards
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New quality metrics for Naval Air quality standards
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New quality metrics notebooks for Naval Air quality standards
on Monday, 25 October 2021.
Posted in News, P6-QA
The P6-QA tool was developed by the team at Emerald Associates to remove the burden of manual schedule and business process analysis by automatically identifying any deficiencies in Primavera P6 schedules. This is done based on scheduling best practices and industry standards, such as the Defense Contract Management Agency’s (DCMA) 14-point assessment, as well as user introduced business process requirements. The P6-QA tool integrates directly into Primavera P6 itself. Take a look at this webinar clip for a guided example of some of the functionality of P6-QA.
Interested in finding out more about our P6-QA tool? Check out the links below!
on Friday, 22 October 2021.
P6-QA helped to quickly review and critique a 600 million dollar project schedule
Identified Leads, Lags, and Constraints in a P6 Schedule
Client Overview
When running a large, multi-use building project in the middle of New York City, planning and scheduling is not a nice to have. As a specialty developer, having a P6 scheduling expert is a luxury the project could not afford. So P6-QA SaaS was a great fit for a quick review and critique of the 600 million dollar project schedule.
Challenges
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Reviewing an 8,000+ activity schedule when you do not have a P6 scheduling expert on the team
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Giving critique on the critical path and the project workflow by discipline
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Understanding the real gaps in the schedule and how to discuss the improvements needed in an intelligent manner
Results
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In less than 2 hours, the P6-QA tool ran and identified the open ends
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In less than 2 hours, P6-QA helped with the explanation and write-up of the critical path
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Identified leads, lags, and constraints and reported on them in minutes
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Achieved the coding structure required to see the disciplines and key building areas tied to major project turnover milestones for the retail space, the hotel space, and the condominium towers, with little pre-knowledge of the project
on Wednesday, 22 September 2021.
Posted in Case Studies
Learn how a large engineering firm moved to the Emerald Cloud.
Emerald Cloud, Tools and Services - A Winning Combo
Written by Sue Hopkins
Client Overview
Client is an employee-owned multi-disciplined engineering, planning, architectural, and environmental services firm in the United States. With nearly 700 employees spread between more than 30 offices in 12 states, they offer a wide range of services with a focus on aviation, construction, facilities design, federal, power, transportation, survey, and water. They sit in the top 150 of the Engineering News-Record's prestigious Top 500 Design Firms list, while Zweig Group has recognized client as a best firm to work for in the multi-discipline category for six consecutive years.
Challenges
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Client was looking for an alternative to the Oracle Cloud for them and the Department of Transportation (DOT) they were working with.
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The Program Controls manager wanted faster response time on support tickets for four databases.
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Needed a reliable environment for 80+ DOT users to fulfill their contract commitments.
Results
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Moved hosting of four databases to the Emerald Cloud.
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Decreased supported response time from days to hours
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Able to bring their DOT client online with their environment in less than two months, including upgrade of P6 and rollout of new business processes.
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Added a second DOT client to Emerald's hosting environment two years later.
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on Thursday, 17 June 2021.
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Transportation company uses P6-QA to ensure projects are managed consistently to meet tight timelines.
Critical Path and Contractor Deliveries
Written by Nicole Jardin
Client Overview
The client is one of the largest ferry operators in the world, and supports many tourism, commerce, and residential needs. Providing ferry transport to thousands of people and vehicles daily is no easy task, and ensuring that customers have a good experience required overhauling customer service programs. This large IT program had many moving parts and the team needed to find a way to ensure that all of the projects within the programs were being managed consistently to meet very tight timelines.
Challenges
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Primavera P6 was new and the users were running projects
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No reliable critical path across the program
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Forecasting was not coming together reliably
Results
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P6-QA critiqued 20 projects during development
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P6-QA highlighted open ends - allowed critical path schedule
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P6-QA helped team see gaps in resourcing
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Schedule review workshops to fix deficiencies
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Better schedule development
Transportation Case Studies
on Wednesday, 16 December 2020.
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Integration enables the management of work orders, tasks, relationships, resources, and resource assignments; providing synchronized scheduling and resource updates.
Emerald Associates created Work Orders from SAP Hana Cloud into Primavera P6 Azure Cloud for detailed task and resource management in Primavera P6 using Mulesoft and
the EAI P6 Cloud API. We created SAP Operations and supporting resources and resource limits as new resources are introduced in SAP.
- Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) - create/update SAP Operations into Primavera P6
- Tasks - create/update tasks from SAP operations
- Relationships - create/update relationships from SAP and allow Primavera P6 schedulers to change and update them back from Primavera P6
- Resources - create/update for new crews in SAP and set limits
- Resource Assignments - create/update resource assignments from SAP operations and sub-operations for detailed resource management
- Primavera P6 → SAP - return operation and sub-operation lists and relationships to update SAP with Primavera P6 schedule information
- Return task lists generated in Primavera P6
on Thursday, 15 June 2023.
Posted in Case Studies
Emerald Associates is well known in the US and Canada for our homegrown add-on tools for Primavera P6. We have assisted numerous companies in many diverse areas to get the most out of their P6 software. You may wonder how our tools can assist in the Department of Transportation (DOT) field to get more done in P6 with less time while still providing useful data to your stakeholders and remaining good stewards of the public's funds. Our tools will help you do more work in less time, so that your project management group has more time to analyze and perfect their schedules.
Written by Sue Fermelia - Implementation Specialist
on Friday, 27 July 2018.
Posted in All Articles, P6-Loader
The P6-QA tool was developed by the team at Emerald Associates in order to remove the burden of manual schedule and business process analysis by automatically identifying any deficiencies in Primavera P6 schedules, based on scheduling best practices and industry standards. These include the Defense Contract Management Agency’s (DCMA) 14-point assessment, as well as user-introduced business process requirements. Unlike many other tools, the P6-QA tool integrates directly into Primavera P6 itself.
Take a look at this short overview video to learn more about how Emerald's P6-QA tool can help improve your user experience, and make your life a whole lot easier.
on Monday, 24 August 2015.
