Session ID:

Prepared by:

Primavera P6 “Book of

Secrets”

Resolutions and workarounds to

common P6 challenges

10703

@LoadSpring

Warren Krueger

EVP Customer Experience

LoadSpring Solutions, Inc.

LoadSpring Solutions, Inc

• 16 years Project Management solution provider

• Oracle Gold Certified Partner

• SpringBoard Portal for secure and easy application

and support access

• 3,000 companies and 90,000 users worldwide, 1MM

Projects

• 200+ applications under management

• 5 regionally synchronized Class A data centers

– Boston, San Diego, London, Toronto, Singapore

• SSAE 16 SOC II Type 2 security certification

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Warren Krueger

• Focused 100% on the Project Management Customer

Experience using the Cloud

• Education: B.S. Construction Management

• Project History:

– Environmental – Automotive – IT – Construction – Power –

Research & Development

• P6 History: (P6 EPPM 8 Certified Implementation Specialist)

– User – Implementer – Trainer – Consultant – Cloud Provider

• Personal

– Sustainable Farming – Mountain Biker

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Topics

• Introduction

• Challenge 1: “My XER is too big to email.”

• Challenge 2: “Why is it running slow?”

• Challenge 3: “Who changed that in my schedule?”

• Challenge 4: “Why does it take so long to baseline?”

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My XER file is too big to email

• User Challenge: When exporting an XER file to

transmit to another party the export takes forever

and the file is excessively large.

• Cause: Unused data “for future use”

• Guidance: Clean the POBS Data

– (Doc ID 1967569.1)

– Clean the XER File manually

– Use the XER Parser Utility or POBS Eraser

– Automate cleanup of the POBS Table

– Upgrade to a version with the patch

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POBS Handling Options

• Manual XER Edit

• XER Parser Utility (KM 1302538.1)

• POBS Eraser Tool Doc ID 2046971.1

• Automating POBS Table Cleanup

• Consider Upgrading for Fix

– r8.3.12.0

– r8.4.8.0

– r15.1.5.0

– r15.2.1.0

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Why’s P6 running slow?

• User Challenge: Why does it feel like P6 is getting slower everyday?

• Guidance:

– Benchmark performance actions for comparison

1. Review Technology Environment (Sizing, Network, etc.)

2. Establish Data Cleanup Maintenance Processes

– REFRDEL purge

– POBS DATA

– PXKREF Cleanup

– Disabling Auditing Triggers

– Schedule cleanup of extended schema (purge old)

– Schedule check project integrity scripts

– Schedule Index Analysis and database rebuild

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Backend Data Maintenance

• REFRDEL Purge

– Doc ID 1615584.1

• POBS Data Purge

– Doc ID 902053.1

• PXKREF Cleanup

– Doc ID 2098257.1

• Disable Auditing Triggers

– Doc ID 1501639.1

• Schedule cleanup of extended schema (Purge old)

– Doc ID 1325657.1

• Project Integrity Check

– Doc ID 1083481.1

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Oracle Sizing Guidelines

ORACLE SIZING GUIDELINES

SMALL MEDIUM LARGE

Projects 200 1,000 50,000

Active Users 50 100 200

Activities 100,000 1,000,000 5,000,000

Activities per project 5,000 10,000 20,000

Resources 500 1,000 4,000

Resource Assignments 100,000 1,000,000 5,000,000

Resource Assignments per Project 5,000 10,000 20,000

Risks 100 500 2,500

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• Also consider the volume of UDF and Code

Assignment values in sizing the technology

environment.

Java Versions

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Who Changed That?

• User Challenge: Tracking the source of

unexpected changes is difficult in Primavera P6.

• Guidance: LoadSpring recommends Audit Trail

(AT) for Oracle Primavera EPPM. Changes to

schedule data are date/time/user stamped

accessible through an intuitive user interface for

analysis.

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AT for Oracle Primavera EPPM

• http://audiit.com/default/index.php/prod/audit-trail-dashboard-2

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Undo Project Changes

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Why does it take so long to Baseline?

• User Challenge: When using P6 Professional and

I save a baseline the User Interface is locked up for

15 minutes.

• Guidance:

– Understand Version Differences

• R8.4 – Baseline running as a service

– Establish scheduled baselining window and

frequency

– Are you truly baselining or just making a copy as a

snapshot?

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Baselining Handling Discussion

• Baselining

– Baselining pre - 8.4

– Baselining post - 8.4

– Alternatives to baselining

• Snapshots

• Archive

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Questions & Comments

Want to learn more?

Come visit me at Booth 1337.

Warren Krueger

wkrueger@loadspring.com

303-829-4133