Primavera P6
Practical P6 guides.
Written for experienced planners and controls professionals, not as beginner tutorials \u2014 the mechanics that actually decide whether a programme is reliable, and where P6 quietly misleads you.
Baseline vs Current Programme
The reference and the live schedule — keep them distinct.
Read the guide → 02Critical Path Analysis
The path driving completion — and why P6 may report the wrong one.
Read the guide → 03Total Float vs Free Float
Two very different measures of “spare time.”
Read the guide → 04Relationship Types
FS, SS, FF, SF and lags — where logic quality lives.
Read the guide → 05Constraints
Date restrictions that override logic — use sparingly.
Read the guide → 06Out-of-Sequence Progress
When reality ignores the logic — and the forecast breaks.
Read the guide → 07Progress Updating
Recording actuals with the discipline the forecast depends on.
Read the guide → 08Schedule Comparison
What changed between two programmes — where problems hide.
Read the guide → 09Recovery Programmes
A genuine plan, or a work of fiction.
Read the guide → 10Schedule Quality Review
Testing a programme before its dates are trusted.
Read the guide → 11Forecasting
Forward dates that follow the evidence, not the wish.
Read the guide →Related: Planning & Primavera P6 (expertise) · 100-Point Schedule Assurance · Schedule Health Check