Hi,I'm a Planning Engineer with 1.8 year work experience in construction industry, UAE. I've a Diploma in Project Planning and Management and a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering. I want to know what might be the best advice for taking the n...
Earlier this week someone asked me if they could perform a Fill Down with resources in P6 and when I said no, the next question was is there a way to quickly assign same resources to multiple activities? This quick tip outlines steps that answer this...
Recently, several people have commented that as a profession, PMO and Projects people tend to be negative. But are we really? I did some analysis on the #PMOT twitter tag and the results are overwhelmingly positive. What are your views?Full article h...
Dear all,I know that many Planning Planet users have previously expressed an interest in Delaymaster, our start-up software tool designed to perform forensic delay analysis computations and calculate extension of time entitlement at the touch of a bu...
i have a situation where after exporting my project and send it to our planning team on project when they try importing the Xer file the WBS is not correct , its all under one level of the WBS what could be the Issue ?
Dear All,I am working for an engineering chemical company as PCM and have been evaluating for 2 years, several softwares, due to our growing on internationnal project.I intend to present to my management the shortlist. In order to securise my recoman...
I am Planning Engineer, I am thinking of learning BIM but I am confused should I do it or not.Many People tell me it is of use for a draughtsman job who wants to move up in his career. I have read on internet that it helps in finding contruction diff...
I am Planning Engineer, I am thinking of learning BIM but I am confused should I do it or not. Many People tell me it is of use for a draughtsman job who wants to move up in his career. I have read on internet that it helps in finding contruction dif...
Hi All, I have a problem about update my schedule. When I imported my actual dates from excel to primavera, I see my actual start & finish column shows 00:00 time format Even though my works time starts 08:00 and finish 16:00. This couses unexpected ...
Hello Everyone, Could you please tell me which is the best Software suitable for a Technical Deliverable Progress Measurement. For a very huge project we would have lot of engineering deliverables say by main healding Process, Mechanical, Piping, Ele...
Hello,I am trying to get an accurate cost spread for my project.We do not use resources only expenses and we have specific financial periods which I have set up in the admin tab.However, when I show the activity usage spreadsheet on my layout, the co...
Here's a great tip on how to remove relationships from multiple activities in Primavera P6 http://ow.ly/bUKh3056Alxhttp://ow.ly/bUKh3056Alx
Hi all,Is there a way to convert Activity Codes to WBS in P6. I have searched and some people suggested to use SDK. First i dont know what SDK is and i dont have that too? I would appreciate if anyone could suggest the easiest way to convert. Thanks,...
Hi all,I'm trying to have an activity with a set labor cost. This is a cost that has been agreed upon for the activity and shouldn't change. Staff record to a timesheet. Different staff have different rates. My problem is that when applying actuals ...
Hi all Apologies if this has aready been asked / answered.Can anyone guide me in the best direction on how to schedule compensation events into the project baseline? Im working under the NEC contract.Thanks James
So i have opened my schedule today in p6 and relised someone else has copy parts of my project into their's as they needed the same type of activities in there schedule. However when they have copied and pasted the WBS it they seem to have had the On...
So i have opened my schedule today in p6 and relised someone else has copy parts of my project into their's as they needed the same type of activities in there schedule. However when they have copied and pasted the WBS it they seem to have had the On...
Hello Dears;When we do the monthly report, we usually send to the contractor a table showing the most important zones which have the activities of the project; showing in this table:1- % Planned complete2- % Actual complete3- Variance; (Actual % - Pl...
Hi Friends,I want to export the full activity usage spreadsheet containing planned and earned value by month to excel. I tried Ctrl+A > Ctrl+C in activity usage spreadsheet screen but when I past it in excel I got only timescale and activity columns(...
Hello All Friends. I am Really New Here And Want to be a part of You and Learn From Here. Regards,Arif Hadi Civil EngineerDUBAI UAE.