The schedule nobody looks at
A three-month programme doesn't tell a foreman what to finish this week.
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For planning managers: from the P6 schedule to what gets done this week
Keep Primavera P6 as the schedule of record. BuildCore reads it for portfolio dashboards, imports it for look-aheads and weekly plans, and measures what actually gets done — PPC, the reasons tasks slip, and the constraints that stop a workfront.
Sound familiar?
What gets in the way
Slippage explained after the fact
Without PPC and reasons, the same constraint stops work week after week.
Reporting instead of planning
Hours go into rebuilding S-curves and milestone lists by hand.
How BuildCore helps
What you'd use, and what it does
P6, read-only
- Portfolio, health, milestone, variance and risk dashboards over your P6 data
- BuildCore never writes to the schedule
- P6 on Oracle? Use XER import instead
Last Planner
- Look-ahead from the imported schedule
- Weekly work plans with PPC and reasons for non-completion
- Daily plans and daily PPC
Constraints and workfronts
- A constraint register you can close, reopen or turn into an issue
- Workfront readiness checklists and scores, released with or without a waiver
- Manpower, equipment and productivity against plan
Progress from site
- Daily progress reports with manpower by trade, approved and printed as PDFs
- Late reports flagged
- Earned value per measurement and a project S-curve
In practice
A planning week
1
Import
The latest P6 schedule comes in as XER.
2
Look ahead
Pull the next three weeks' activities.
3
Commit
Weekly work plans agreed with the crews.
4
Clear
Constraints closed before the crew arrives.
5
Record
Daily plans and progress reports from site.
6
Learn
PPC and its reasons, trended.
Questions
Common questions
No. The live dashboards are read-only, and XER import brings a copy of the schedule into BuildCore's own module. P6 stays the schedule of record.
The live dashboards need a SQL Server-hosted P6 database. On Oracle, export XER files and import them into BuildCore's schedule module.
Yes. Each task closed as not completed carries its reason, and the reasons are trended alongside PPC.
Other roles
BuildCore for the rest of the team
- Project directors
- Contracts & commercial
- Document controllers
- QA/QC managers
- HSE managers
- Procurement managers
- PMC & consultants
Modules on this page: APM — Primavera P6 · Construction PM
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