The following methods could reduce schedule modification time by up to 80% compared to using live meetings, Excel files, or PDFs:
- Adding new activities and their durations
- Adding new links, including lag/lead and relationship type, with the ability to identify circular links
- Adding WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) elements
- Removing activities or relationships
- Identifying which activities will lack successors or predecessors after deleting relationships or activities, without needing to transfer and reschedule in P6
- Removing WBS elements
- Isolating a list of predecessors or successors for a specific activity for later use
- “Flying” through the logic and isolating the critical path
- Highlighting resource-related links using colours; relationship comments in P6 can be exported and represented by colour
- Maintaining control over each individual modification transferred into P6, removing the need for long “focus” sessions to transfer suggested changes; at any time, you can see how many modifications remain to be transferred
- Isolating 4-week lookahead activities, including their adjacent logic, to provide justifiable reasons for slippage or to suggest instant mitigation actions by proposing logic changes