Planners,I work in the overhead line transmission industry, this mainly depends on client outages in order for us to carry out work.So basically as soon as an outage begins we can start work on the refurbishment of conductors etc, we have a set time ...
Not sure which category to place this under ... as it is definitely light-hearted ... but -- I have written a murder mystery about a Project Controls Director who kills his superior, the Vice President of Operations. It takes place in a construction ...
I just received the blast email (reprinted below) from PMI's Scheduling Community of Practice announcing the webinar that I will be doing for them on July 10th. It is FREE to all PMI members, but you have to register for it. Last I heard (about two w...
Dear AllI want to share my views and your comments as well. We have a new project manager after a gap of more than one month. The project at status the moment1- Progress percentage around 53%2- 13 months behind the schedule3- Project r...
Dear all,I am checking the work with portfolios.As far as I understand, the mechanism is as followsWhen you add project to portfolio and then consolidate projects, Spider considers all object except activities to be the same in different projects as ...
Hi Guys, I have got a problem with Earned Value Labor Units in one of my projects new activities, that Earned Value Labor Units is not getting calculated according to activity %. Please suggest the possible reason, to fix this error. Regards, Abi...
We have different labour rates in different financial years and we need to extract accurate time-phased costs from P6 (Release 7 SP4). The labour rates per financial year have been setup against the resource for the applicable time period. When we vi...
Hello I am trying to use the Estimate to complete (ETC) as my Labor Units for my resource loading histograms. However, when I go into my reports I am unable to create a report using ETC (only allows me to pick Remaining Units). Any suggestions? K
Here's asimple tutorial on how to use Work Products and Documents in Primavera P6 http://ow.ly/mmw34
Hi all,I am presently faced with the following issue:The supplier has submitted a MSP file to both me and another planner. However, when we open the file, both of us see different Project completion dates. Both our settings and file source being the ...
Hi folks is the there any equivalent to wbs summary (of primavera p6 ) in Ms Project 2007 ? if yes , how to to do it ? Regards Kamel
Hi folksis the there any equivalent to wbs summary (of primavera p6 ) in Ms Project 2007 ?if yes , how to to do it ?RegardsKamel
I have this problem at work: I have my time schedule which is updated up to data date, now a new area is going to be added to project scope which the engineering and construction activities have been started 2 months before. now thay ask me to prepar...
Dear Sirs,For P6, say Task A is the predecessor as Task B and Task C is the successor for Task B.If I delete Task B, can the linking from Task A-Task B become Task A to Task C?Thank you
for a certain activity, I assigned 2 different resources 'labor' categories (Skilled, unskilled Electritions). when I updated my CCS and inserted an actual start date and a 90% duration completion for that activity, it showed actual hours only for th...
Primavera P6 Analytics Roadmap – R3.2 & R4.0 http://ow.ly/mqWfU
What is the easiest way to know delays/advance (days) ? p6Thanks
I know this may be a dumb question,But how can I print the Gantt Chart legend so that people used to read MS project knows what each bar is talking about? Saludos cordiales, -Carlos
Dear All1- The Revised Finish date is 02-02-YYYY2- An EoT claim submitted by the contractor on 01-01-YYYY3- Engineer’s letter to submit Recovery Program (FIDIC 1999) clause 8.3 & 8.6 on 03-01-YYYY (after the submission of EoT and 30 da...
Dear All1- Once the Contractor has submitted an Interim EoT Claim2- The Engineer has accepted that to review3- Responds to the contractor that the claim is being reviewedThe contractual / revised finish date is considered withhold / nu...