Looking for advice from anybody who has experience scheduling in aerospace and construction industry! Thinking about switching to construction, but would love to hear some pros/cons from people who have worked in it. Also would like to add that I don’t have any construction experience so while I’m interested that may hold me back…
Thanks in advance!
The Scheduler Reviewer for the Owner has started running a new metric that reports how many relationships within the schedule I submitted are redundant. This is the review comment I just got back:
"There are 64 instances of redundant logic. Redundant logic can obscure the true critical path, complicate schedule maintenance, and create unintended constraints during updates. Please review redundant predecessor relationships and revise accordingly. This is not a requirement to remove all redundancies but revise where applicable. Preserve the relationship only when the Contractor can demonstrate that it represents a separate, valid, and necessary sequencing requirement that is not adequately represented by the identified pathway. For each relationship retained, provide a written justification."
Note: the reviewer either can't or won't provide a list of the 64 objectionable logic ties, only told me there were 64 of them.
I've watched a few YouTube videos that exported to Excel and ran formulas on the Relationships table, but none of those have been able to generate a list of 64 that the Schedule Reviewer came up with.
While I understand conceptually what a redundant relationship is, how do I go about creating a filter (either in P6 or by exporting to excel), to identify the 64 redundant relationships in this schedule?
I have opportunity to take OPC training.
I have decade of suretrak/P3/P6 use.
I dont see any jobs in USA that want OPC users.
Are no companies using it?
I saw a post from someone building an AI agent that can analyse Primavera schedules, identify causes of delay, suggest recovery plans and help resolve out-of-sequence progress, dangling activities and redundant relationships.
It got me wondering why Oracle seems so slow to improve P6. It’s an industry standard for planning and scheduling, with a huge customer base, but so many everyday tasks still depend on Excel macros and third-party tools. Some workflows feel exactly the same as they did 15 years ago.
I’m not even asking for advanced AI like what nPlan and others are doing. Why don’t we have better built-in tools for out-of-sequence progress, dangling activities, redundant relationships, half-step analysis and basic delay analysis? Even routine schedule checks and reporting could be much easier.
With how quickly AI agents are developing, I would expect Oracle to have a clear advantage given its resources and user base. Yet using P6 still often feels like working with software from the early 2000s.
Is most of the development going into Primavera Cloud? Is there too little competition pushing them to improve P6, or are there technical reasons behind this?
For those who have been using it for years, am I missing something, or do you feel the same?
I'm a recent accounting finance and economics graduate and recently a close family friend as put me on a seven week course to learn Primavera P6. I writing because I want to know how employable I woul be with a degree and a P6 certificate even though I have no experience in project managent, if I was to apply for project management roles after getting the certificate how succesful will my applications be.
Hey everyone,
I’m curious to see how many people in this sub are working in Project Controls or Planning & Scheduling, and use Primavera P6 combined with Power BI as their ultimate stack.
Lately, I’ve been focusing a lot on automating data extraction from P6 (whether through Excel exports, XER parsers, or direct database connections) and transforming it into interactive Power BI dashboards for executive reporting, S-curves, and delay analyses.
If this matches your daily workflow, I’d love to connect and chat about a few things:
* How are you pulling your P6 data into Power BI? (Excel dumps, SQL, or specialized third-party tools?)
* What is your favorite custom visual layouts for tracking SPI/CPI or look-ahead schedules?
* What is the biggest headache you face when trying to refresh your data?
Looking forward to hearing about your workflows, tips, or any cool dashboard setups you've built!
Hey everyone,
I’m curious to see how many people in this sub are working in Project Controls or Planning & Scheduling, and use Primavera P6 combined with Power BI as their ultimate stack.
Lately, I’ve been focusing a lot on automating data extraction from P6 (whether through Excel exports, XER parsers, or direct database connections) and transforming it into interactive Power BI dashboards for executive reporting, S-curves, and delay analyses.
If this matches your daily workflow, I’d love to connect and chat about a few things:
Looking forward to hearing about your workflows, tips, or any cool dashboard setups you've built!
I would like to study primevera and reframe my career as planning engineer. I'm mechanical engineering graduate working in a warehouse