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Calendar Corruption???

Hi folks, I am having an issue with the Calendars in P6. I have set up the calendar on a UK job as a 10 hour a day, 6 day week calendar excluding all UK Bank Holidays and Christmas Holidays. My days are set up to start at 7am and finish at 5pm. My issue is that, although the working hours are set up in the calendar, when I assign the calendar to activities and look at the Start date, (with the tie showing), it is showing a wide range of Start / Finish times on the activities. I have some activities starting at 0930 and finishing at 1400, some starting at 1100 and finishing at 0000.

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Request: P6 programme to help verify a schedule-risk engine

Hello all,

I've been developing a forward-looking schedule-risk tool that reads a P6 .xer and produces a calendar-aware CPM, a probabilistic finish-date forecast (calibrated using reference-class and schedule-quality signals), and an integrated cost–schedule view. It does well on the schedules I have — but a tool is only as honest as the variety of real programmes it has been tested against, and my own sample is small.

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Probabilistic Chain Analysis (PCA) — A Framework for Running Projects in a Probabilistic World

Introduction

I want to share a methodology I have spent the last eight months developing, validating, and writing up — and I would genuinely value the technical scrutiny of this community before I take it further into academic submission.

The problem it addresses is one I suspect everyone here has lived:

A static risk register sums independent expected values. It treats fifteen risks as fifteen separate coin flips. It produces a number. The Project Director nods at the number. The project begins.

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AI driven tools for Planning

There’s been a lot of noise recently around AI‑enabled planning, risk forecasting, and project controls, but much less clarity on what is genuinely moving the needle beyond traditional CPM‑based approaches and deterministic controls.

From what I’m seeing, the more interesting tools are shifting planning away from being a static baseline exercise and towards a dynamic, probabilistic, network‑aware decision system. The real value seems to emerge where AI is applied to:

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Introducing the Critical Effort Method (CEM)

In many project planning meetings we observe that some parts of a schedule are significantly harder to execute than others, even when they are not located on the Critical Path.

Traditional scheduling methods such as the Critical Path Method focus primarily on time criticality. However, they do not explicitly represent execution difficulty.

Based on this observation, we recently developed a framework called the Critical Effort Method (CEM). The idea is to introduce an additional analytical layer into project scheduling that helps identify areas of high execution complexity.

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Mentor new planner in producing a Recovery Programme for a road project

Hi,

looking for an Iraqi Planner to mentor a new graduate in producing a recovery programme for a delayed road project. It would be better if they were a national as they will be firmilar with local contracts and language.

Can you guide him in this?

Drop your email below and I will pass it on

thanks

 

Peter

 

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Construction Testing, Commissioning, Handover & Start-up

Every wondered how to get more feedback from the project team on your schedule backend for those last 2 activities - Commissioning & Handover? You are at the very start of the project with very little commissioning and ops input so you just put those 2 activity bars from 70% construction complete to the contract handover date without any more thought.

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Summary Schedule; L4 to L2

Hello,

I'd be grateful if anyone could give me some pointers as to how I might share my Level 4/5 working level detailed schedule with the client. I dont want them to see all of our secrets and also dont want to have to create a duplicate, but more summary scedule.

Has anyone got some ideas on a suggested best practice approach please.

Thx Dean

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