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How many activities would you have for…

 

 

It was the subject of our conversation a couple of days ago, that the way we plan and control projects in Iran is too complicated and for example we use too many activities in our project plans. The first thing came to my mind was to ask it here!

So, suppose we have a construction project (a normal office building, 8 floors), budgeted 50,000,000$, two years. How many activities would you have in your normal plans?

 

 

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Thresholds Urgent

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Aries Arian 👤 Member for 14 years 8 months

Hello,

 

I have an Issue Regarding Thresholds.I want to monitor a start date variance threshold.i have Given upper value as 2d and lower value as -3 days.after monitoring I issues are generated but the value in issue do not have negative sign i.e, the activities that have threshold value -10d are notshowing -ve sign.Will i have to check some option for this.Please suggest me the solution.

 

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Duration % of Original % Threshold

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Aries Arian 👤 Member for 14 years 8 months

Hi all P6 Users,

Can any one Explain me that how P6 Calculates Origional Duration and Actual Duration.I was applying a Threshold "Duration % Of rigional (%)" and you must know that

 

Duration % of Origional (% )=  Actual Duration / Original Duration * 100

Now I Am not having a clear understanding that how P6 Calculates Actual Duration and Origional Duration Values.

Please Clear This Concept.

Thanks in Advance.

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Schedule Basis

I am a newly appointed planner for a green field project due for Singapore, I would like to ask some advice on how to set a BASIS of Schedule. The current program I am adjusting was done in Japan, and I am having a hard time asking the person

due to language barrier.

I would like to ask the more experienced planners on this group to help me define or look for the basis of schedule.

Is it enough that I use the milestones from the client? it was just a completion date of the project. so i am having a hard time...thanks in advance

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Risk Anaylysis in Primavera P6

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Aries Arian 👤 Member for 14 years 8 months

Hi All,

For Last Couple of week I have been trying by myself to use the "Risks" tab in Primavera P6.I am now femiliar of all its options but have never seen a practical example or a tutorial video.I guess I shall not attain confidence in myself untill I know that what i am doing is Right.Any suggestion/Link/Literature that can help me??? Please note that I am talking specifically about Primavera P6, not general Risk Analysis.

 

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Resource With Different Cost/Time

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Aries Arian 👤 Member for 14 years 8 months

Hi All.

If this is an old topic then please accepy my appologies.i have searched but not found any thread that could help me.

Suppose you have a resource that has Different Rate in Different hours,Say 100$ from 8:00 am To 12:00am and 150$ From 12:00Pm to 4:00 Pm.

Can anyone tell me steps that how to put this in primavera.I am Using P6.

 

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Exclusive OR Shared Mode

I have a project in PRIMAVERA P6 which is opening only in shared mode. While pressing F9 for schedule also message is showing that some other user opened the project. i tried to change to exclusive mode by File > Open, but exclusive button is Disabled (Not available). I am 100% sure that it is NOT opened by any body. how i can come up from this... any suggessions.... Please.

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asking for advice - good practice approach

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Marcus Love 👤 Member for 15 years 11 months

Hi fellow planners/schedulers, 

I came across something new yesterday and I  am not sure how to go about it.

 

The scope of the project I am involved in changed slightly. It is an engineering project. In my baseline I have a few activities that are not part of the scope anymore. How do I go about that change? Do I simply delete the activities? Do I set its original duration to '0' ( the activity has not started) and unlink it from the rest of the project?

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resource assignments

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Ajeej N 👤 Member for 16 years 1 month

hai,

 

I have a recovery program and the activities have some actual start dates. The activity duration type assigned is fixed duration and units.

Resources assignments have - Preserve units, duration and units/times assigned.

but when i check the resource usage spread sheet, in updated activities,  the Actual units  + remaining units doesnt match to budgeted units.

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