That's good news Ahmed. That means no conflict between our Dummy resource priced at $1.00, and the real resources which are not priced.
In conversation with your clients, do not use the word 'cost' - say 'weighting'! That is what you are doing, not applying cost, just using P6's costing abilities as a mechanism to weight the activities.
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Submitted by Zoltan Palffy on Thu, 2021-05-27 14:07
Unfortunatly, I can not even add unit price or dummy resources ti my baseline since the client standardto not show any cost in the schedule, this is the main issue I am facing !
The only solution I have come with is by creating project monitor sheet in excel to calculate the WBS schedule % from the unites
Schedule % complete comes from the baseline. So, yes you can have it represent units or time BUT you must make the changes in the baseline
If you add a resource to each activity in the baseline, at the rate of one unit per unit time, and price that resource at $1.00, then Schedule % complete will represent units and time. A 20-day activity, for example, will have 20 units of resource and $20.00 units of cost.
The difficulty is if you want to add the real cost of an activity. The best way to do this is to use two of the available five rates for each resource. One rate has the real price of the real resources (e.g. Fitter, $50.00 per hour) and $0.00 for our dummy resource, and the other rate has a price of $0.00 for all the real resources and $1.00 for the dummy resource. A single Global Change can change the rate used in all of a project’s resource assignments. Note that Global change does not work on Baselines! They have to be Restored first.
The Schedule % Complete indicates how much of the activity duration should be currently completed relative to the selected baseline. My guess is that you do not have a baseline attached. You have no measuring stick how could it possibly know how much is completed if it has nothing to measure against.
Its like going on a diet and say how much weight did I lose ? Well if you did not get on a scale to weigh yourself PRIOR to the diet you have nothing to measure against.
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21 yearsThat's good news Ahmed. That
That's good news Ahmed. That means no conflict between our Dummy resource priced at $1.00, and the real resources which are not priced.
In conversation with your clients, do not use the word 'cost' - say 'weighting'! That is what you are doing, not applying cost, just using P6's costing abilities as a mechanism to weight the activities.
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16 years 3 monthscopy the schedule and do as
copy the schedule and do as David said apply a dummy resource and use that
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7 years 1 monthI appreciate you fast respose
I appreciate you fast respose david
Unfortunatly, I can not even add unit price or dummy resources ti my baseline since the client standard to not show any cost in the schedule, this is the main issue I am facing !
The only solution I have come with is by creating project monitor sheet in excel to calculate the WBS schedule % from the unites
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21 yearsSchedule % complete comes
Schedule % complete comes from the baseline. So, yes you can have it represent units or time BUT you must make the changes in the baseline
If you add a resource to each activity in the baseline, at the rate of one unit per unit time, and price that resource at $1.00, then Schedule % complete will represent units and time. A 20-day activity, for example, will have 20 units of resource and $20.00 units of cost.
The difficulty is if you want to add the real cost of an activity. The best way to do this is to use two of the available five rates for each resource. One rate has the real price of the real resources (e.g. Fitter, $50.00 per hour) and $0.00 for our dummy resource, and the other rate has a price of $0.00 for all the real resources and $1.00 for the dummy resource. A single Global Change can change the rate used in all of a project’s resource assignments. Note that Global change does not work on Baselines! They have to be Restored first.
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7 years 1 monththank you david for
thank you david for participating
I was thinking the same reason, but I prefered to askk the expert before I disscusse it with client
have you face the same before ? is there any way to make wbscheduled % based on Units or time ?
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7 years 1 monthThanks for your reply & time
Thanks for your reply & time sir
I have assigned the baseline, otherwise the activity % will not be 100 % & the same is don the other project without any problem
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16 years 3 monthsThe Schedule % Complete
The Schedule % Complete indicates how much of the activity duration should be currently completed relative to the selected baseline. My guess is that you do not have a baseline attached. You have no measuring stick how could it possibly know how much is completed if it has nothing to measure against.
Its like going on a diet and say how much weight did I lose ? Well if you did not get on a scale to weigh yourself PRIOR to the diet you have nothing to measure against.
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21 yearsSchedule (i.e. Baseline) %
Schedule (i.e. Baseline) % complete is based on cost. You have not priced resources OR there are no resources.