I met a lovely old guy last week at a Fleetwood Mac concert at Madison Square Gardens who was an Attendant there. We got talking while I was getting a beer and he told me he'd worked there for forty years, he remembered when Fleetwood Mac first pla...
Hi,Im trying to convert a large programme from P6 to MP 2010. The Programme has over 3000 activities. Anyone shed any light on the quickest way to convert the programme? Thanks
Dear All,Our Contact is a Item rate Contract.Scope includes Structure ,Finishing & MEP.Preliminaries cost is provided in the contract only for structures which is 5% of Structure Contract Value.Now we made a claim for preliminaries for MEP & Finishi...
Hi,Im trying to convert a large programme from P6 to MP 2010. The Programme has over 3000 activities. Anyone shed any light on the quickest way to convert the programme? Thanks
Hi,Does anyone know if it is possible to show the day of the week associated with a date in P6V7 preferably in a separate column to the date ?ThanksBob
hai friends i'm new to this site. please help me with your advices i'm a beginner in mep planning. but i have no experience in the whole mep systems. the only experience i have is in sprinkler systems. but now i'm forced to study and do the planning ...
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How to make a fragnet of activities in primavera P6? What exactly does the word "fragnet" mean in this context? The fragnet is supposed to consist of subset of activities in the project schedule directly related to the schedule. Fewest number of ac...
I guess I'm getting impatient in my old age. I'm used to the very intuitive way MSP allows you to insert tasks, and then insert subtasks by indenting. And being able to drag things around. From the P6 manual and the web, I cannot figure out how to di...
Dear All,I am faced with a problem.I have created a programs and have given the cost for each activity as a Resource "Cost". The cost values was given in "Budget cost" column. It was all fine when I did the programs and the "Budgeted Total Cost" was ...
There is some topic regarding changing the start/finish date with in the programme with global change, but I can`t find. Programme has actual and keep all information regarding previous baseline (P6-programme is without attached baseline) I need to r...
Hi Asta Management In a recent discussion Stephen Devaux wrote this sentence: I know you are very active with Asta, and in light of your remark above, I feel I must ask: if Asta wants to incorporate modern technology and metrics, why doesn't it inclu...
If an early warning/compensation event delays contractor A to the extent that it will delay contractor B is contractor B entitled to a compensation event. If contractor b has not started on site I assume he can not claim an extension to his contract ...
Hi All, I'm just about to start on the 'adventurous' task of building my own house and I want to create a WBS for the entire build. Does any one have a WBS structure for a building a house or could point me in the right direction to find one. Thanks ...
Not that I haven't done it before but I wanna have some discussion on how planners load quantities / cost from BOQ. I am currently studying on how to optimize the use of P6 in terms of valuation / claims / time extension cost impact etc...I would rea...
As a scheduler within various industries, I have been asked “What is Schedule Quality?” In fact, if you pose this question to various project personnel, you may receive more than one answer per individual! Why? Some view “schedule quality” as a simp...
Hello, Recalling from P3 that were able to create a native P3 file from a filtered layout, wonder if possible to do the same in P6. May be infront of the eyes and not able to see. Do not want to go to the path of deleting unwanted activities and th...
Urgently need help; I did a latest update for bi-weekly reporting , after my updation i assigned the baseline & found out that the earned value cost for two activities which are 100% complete does not replect in earned value column only the actual co...
in projects layout(Primavera6),where i used different codes in organization my projects,is there any way that i can show the number of projects under each branch(automaticly)? I tried to use user defined fields (Integer) and give value =1 to each pr...
Why is that some people say: you can not use Physical percent complete on this schedule because it is not resource-loaded ?As far as I know, Physical percent complete for the activities has nothing to do with the cost,except for calculation of WBS pe...