P6-QA Tool: Primavera P6 Schedule Validation and Process Review

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Automated Quality Control for Your Primavera P6 Schedule and Processes

Quickly identify and solve scheduling problems
Empower your P6 team with quality self-critique
Real-time schedule validations
Inline P6 business process adherence feedback
Produce quality schedules faster

Latest Version - Highlights

Combine P6-QA with Emerald's P6-Reporter to capture your P6-QA data for reporting. P6-Reporter arranges your P6-QA data so it's easy to use in any reporting tool. We also offer ready-to-use reports, like this one in Power BI.
P6-QA allows you to automatically check the quality of your projects directly in P6.
You choose which projects and how frequently P6-QA runs a check. You can easily see when the last check was run.
P6-QA allows you to customize per project what each tolerance will be for individual checks.
Customize layouts for the quality checks that are important to your organization.
On an activity level, you can quickly dive into each activity that doesn’t measure up to your standards.
A variety of notebooks are created for common quality metrics, including DCMA-14, GAO and Naval Air validations.

Overview

Problem

When P6 users collaborating on a project come from diverse backgrounds with varying skill levels, ensuring business processes and schedules are built to your quality standards can be a real challenge. To ensure schedules are well developed and provide a dependable reflection of a workable project plan, expensive third party consultants are often hired to oversee or critique P6 schedules, particularly when a project gate is pending.

Furthermore, to ensure business process adherence within a department or business unit, senior schedulers and lead project controls team members spend significant amounts of their time auditing and reporting on quality standard adherence, often using expensive external systems that can become hard to keep up-to-date with real-time data.

Solution

Emerald’s P6-QA tool removes the burden of manual schedule and business process analysis by automatically identifying deficiencies in Primavera P6 schedules based on scheduling best practices, industry standards, such as the Defense Contract Management Agency’s (DCMA) 14-point assessment, and user introduced business process requirements.

Analysis and feedback are available at all levels in Primavera P6 including:

Project
WBS
Activities
Resource Assignments
Expenses
Steps

Out-of-the-box validation examples include:

Missing logic
Lead/lag checks
Float checks
Duration checks
Missing resource/cost assignment

In addition to out of-the-box scheduling quality validations, user driven monitoring can be added to improve business process adherence by project type, geographical region, organizational maturity, etc.

ROI

The P6-QA tool is unlike other third party Primavera schedule validation tools because it seamlessly integrates directly into Primavera P6 itself, allowing for the improvement of project management skills and scheduling quality in real-time. The P6-QA tool can be run at a preset interval such as weekly, monthly, or on an as-needed frequency to maximize your P6 schedulers’ ability to self-critique and ensure effective quality control and ongoing user-driven improvements.

With the P6-QA tool, quality schedule creation and execution will improve your team’s speed and accuracy in delivering and updating P6 schedules and decrease your reliance on costly outside consultants to do schedule checks and reviews.

Emerald’s P6-QA tool is the most cost effective tool to empower your scheduling team, refine scheduling quality and improve business process adherence.

Packages

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News

P6-QA v8 - New Release

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.