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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Upgrading their hosting allowed this company to stop worrying about P6 maintenance and consolidate their three databases into a single one.
Client Overview
This technology upgrade was done at one of the largest and most respected construction services companies in Canada. Founded in the early 1900s, this company provides a comprehensive list of services that includes general contracting, construction management, design-build services, facility management, and renovation and refurbishment. They have been involved in a variety of significant projects across Canada.
Challenges
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The team was running three separate databases, addressing user access and Primavera P6 maintenance in each one.
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Their IT department had addressing Primavera P6 maintenance on their list, along with numerous other responsibilities.
Results
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The cloud option allowed them to easily consolidate three individual Primavera P6 databases into one. What were three separate databases now run from one database and all users are assigned the security profile applicable for the projects they look after.
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Primavera P6 maintenance is addressed in the Cloud; their IT no longer needs to worry about maintaining it.
Primavera P6 Case Studies
on Monday, 10 August 2020.
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Efficient project management and budget updates made possible through synchronization of project data, estimates, tasks, resources, expenses, and forecasting.
Projects created in Oracle Fusion and integrated with project estimates and tasks from P6 on-premise using Oracle Fusion API and
EAI P6 Cloud API. Actual resources and expenses costs sent from Oracle Fusion into P6 and P6 forecasting sent into Oracle Fusion. Both project and ledger currencies managed, as well as hours for labour and equipment resources.
- WBS - create/update/summarize and consolidate and rollup
- Tasks - managed in P6 with durations and logic - integrated to fusion for billing and charging against
- Resources - auto-create any new resources labour, materials, and equipment that are assigned within Oracle Fusion Resource Assignments - create and update resource assignments including percent complete forecasting to allow resource management and estimate accountability
- Expenses - create/update expenses including percent complete forecasting
- P6 → Oracle Fusion - allow revising the budget in P6 and updating the Fusion budget automatically.
- P6 → Oracle Fusion - allow all progress updating and forecasting of physical percent complete, units percent complete and start and finish dates to be managed and overwritten in P6
on Thursday, 15 June 2023.
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