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Schedule Logic

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All,I am reviewing a P6 schedule submitted by a Subcontractor, the schedule has;6,793 total activities which includes;512 date constraints463 activities without predecessors126 activities without successors1 activity on the Longest PathIn the Contrac...

Jan 10, 2014

Two Ambitious Goals for Your PMO in 2014

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At Ten Six, we see a couple of themes and goals for this year which include raising the strategic profile of the PMO and improving its approach to organizational skill development. Here we take a look at both of these goals. http://ow.ly/sspOI

Jan 10, 2014

Advance Payment

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I have a Client and a Contractor both difficult to manage both don't adhere too much to the contract clauses due to some  kind of friendship . My problem is the advance payment , the contractor included it  on his baseline schedule  on the critical p...

Jan 10, 2014

Budget Cost Loaded

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Dear Planners,I assigned resourses to the activities, some of the assigned resources I loaded with Budget Cost, but after I changed the duration of those activities and the activity calendar, I detected that some of the assigned resources are not loa...

Jan 10, 2014

View of All Costs by Cost Account

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Hello Planners,Is there a view in P6, that allows me to view ALL costs, grouped as per the 'cost account' hierarchy?E.g. I have some activities cost loaded with resources, and other activities cost loaded with expenses. Some activities are loaded wit...

Jan 13, 2014

Graphical Representations of Gantt Charts and Linear Diagrams

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My appologies for posting off topic.I pasted the conversation regarding colors and paterns in this post in order to bring the subject "up to speed".Bogdan's Initial post:I saw in one of the Spider Team publications ("Tools and Techniques of Project a...

Jan 13, 2014

What is the best approach to update multiple project files in P6?

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Happy New Year to All.   I have inherited a set of 4 project schedule files to update in P6, all of them belonging to the same project. Also, all of them are resource loaded (resources have been assigned to level of effort type of activities, not at ...

Jan 13, 2014

activity network

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dear allIn activity network, can we re-organise the activities as per bar chart according to timescale 

Jan 13, 2014

difference between Primavera PPM and EPPM

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Hello I will buy primavera p6 What is the difference between ppm and eppm? Does eppm include everything ppm is capable of and more? Is eppm only web based or desktop usage also possible like in ppm?

Jan 13, 2014

Project Expenses Filter

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Hello Planners,Me again...Is there a way to filter for specific project expense allocations in the 'project expenses' view? The filter icon is greyed out. Is this something can be fixed in admin preferences? or am I pushing the limits of P6?It seems ...

Jan 14, 2014

Predicting the Future

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Only fools and the bankers who created the GFC think the future is absolutely predictable. The rest of know there is always a degree of uncertainty in any prediction about what may happen at some point in the future. The key question is either what d...

Jan 14, 2014

Cost Allocation

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Hi EveyoneCan someone please help me, I assigned costs to a programme which basically is to sit back to back with an estimate. The prgramme consists of 5 LoE activities running from 02 Jan 2014 to 31 March 2014. However when I produced the stacked hi...

Jan 14, 2014

Primavera - Resources over budget / histograms

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Hi;I have resources set up within my project. Project Manager, Engineer etc. Project manager has an 8hr day, Engineer has a 4hr day.In my stacked histogram it shows that both are overloaded as follows......... Project Manager requires 16hrs per dayEn...

Jan 14, 2014

Wet weather contingency

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Hi there, This post could go under a few of sections on here. The question I have is in the handling of wet weather contingency in a schedule. What are the different methods available and which is best for managing it and why? I am throwing out a few...

Jan 14, 2014

Suretrak 3.0c automatically reorganizes activities on startup?

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Hello,Hopefully this is the correct forum for this post. I'm having a problem I hope someone can help with. I'm using Suretrak 3.0c. When I go to Format>Organize and uncheck the Reorganize Automatically box I'm able to insert new activities and move ...

Jan 14, 2014

Criminal Record

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Hi AllI confess that I have a criminal record.It's by the Bee Gees.Best regardsMike Testro

Jan 15, 2014

Automatic Update of Costs

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A quick question for those more knowledgable than I..... My problem is that I have a load of costs set up in my Asta programme with a daily rate assigned.  I have assigned these costs to the relevant activities throughout the programme and all is wel...

Jan 15, 2014