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Primavera P6 Tutorial : Chapter 3.4 : Maintaining Schedule

In coming chapters, let us learn in detail with examples on the following topics:
  1. Maintaining Baselines – Creating copies of projects at various stages for comparison
  2. Assigning Baselines – comparing the baselines with the current project
  3. Updating of Baselines – how to update baselines in the middle of the project
  4. Updating, Scheduling Project – learn how to update the schedule and leveling of resources. Following are the different methods by which one can update the schedule and special features that you can perform as part of the schedule.
    • With Spotlight Feature
    • Updating Project by "Auto Actuals" Method
    • Updating Project by Manual Method
    • Removing Progress from Activities
    • Suspend and Resume Activities
    • Storing Past Period Performance
    • Scheduling Projects
  5. Using Work Products and Documents – Tracking of project-related documents and work products
  6. Tracking Progress – enabling to create layouts to view and track the progress of projects
  7. Comparing Projects – using the “Claim Digger” feature, two projects can be compared
  8. Creating and Using Reflections – learn how to carry out What-If analysis on the copy of a project and merge the changes if found feasible
  9. Checking Project In and Out – learn how to update projects that are outside of the organization database.
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