Hi All,I want to learn that how to put resources and its tracking in MS Project. I have just learnt to prepare and update the Project Schedule and its activities in MS Project. But i am not confident in Resource Planning.Can anyone help me for that ?...
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Hey,I want to comapare the Calanders used in to different Baseline. How can i do this?
I just posted a new blog article about collaboration and innovation in PM. It was inspired by two things: #1. I've been reading Walter Isaacson's book "The Innovators" (which I strongly recommend). In it, he talks about how collaboration is often "ac...
Here's a guide on how to switch out Labor Resources on an active project in Primavera P6 http://ow.ly/P2am2
Dear All,After assigning a resource when I open Project - Resource assignment it is showing blank . Is there any settings that has to be changed inorder to show the resource summary ( Budgeted units) by month. Any thing related to report settings to ...
Hi AllI have a very unique scenario where we have introduced P6 in a simple form into a PMO that manages the repair and rebuild of earthquake damaged homes.Currently I have set up each address as a separate project in the EPS. I ahve done this for se...
i have two questions about linking.. assume you have a very large schedule. 1) what is the fastest way of finding related activities and link them? lets say you have a schedule of thousands of activities and you wanted to link two activities that are...
I just posted a new blog article: "How to Determine the Expected Value of Those Crucial Enabler Projects!" In it, I explore the uniquely valuable nature of such projects and the potentially huge value/cost of the impact of time on the value they retu...
We have P6 &SAP as our integrated planning suite of systems however when we implemented the current solution we obviously did not exploit each products fundamental processes and have created our bespoke interfaces which are not as efficient as was fi...
Hi, I am working in different projects at different times. And I work with different layouts for different projects. But when I close one project and open new project in Primavera P6, the new project opens in the old layout in which I was working ear...
Hi Mike, I have a schedule with a summary task with sub tasks which have been color coded .If I copy this summary task to another schedule the color coding on the individual subtask bars disappears.can you advice pleaseAlso you did mention that when ...
Hi All! We are using P6 in our project, one of our consultant is calculating activity delays using the variance dates (BL FInish - Finish), my point of view as a planner is the actual delays in the activity can be viewed once we run the schedule as P...
Hello everyone,Please participate in my survey. Here is an anonymous link to the survey: https://warwickwmg.eu.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_8dIAkfJIh3M1QUtI am an M.Sc. Programme and Project Management student at the University of Warwick. I am conductin...
Hi, I received this error message from P6 8.1 today. I had a failed import, deleted it and tried to delete some other old files to make room for new one. everything was looking good but suddenly it was crushed and then I couldn't even login to the pr...
I’m looking for some advanced users to be beta testers for a logic visualization tool that my firm developed for internal use but has now converted into an Add-In for MSP. It’s called BPC Logic Filter for Microsoft Project. An unregistered (freewar...
My previous blog article “How to Determine the Expected Value of Those Crucial Enabler Projects!” generated quite a lot of interest and discussion in some LinkedIn Discussion groups. I joined in those discussions, but felt that some of it was importa...
Hello All,I am trying to automate my companies timesheet program with P6 through an excel import.When i populate an activity in the taskrsrc tab with both the resourceid and the actual labor units, p6 imports as expected. For some activities, however...
Hi I was just wondering if anyone cold provide any guidnace on resetting the baseline in P6 when your project already has progress in it?For example, I have a project that has progress applied for 6 months and now have a Compensation Event (Delay Cla...
Hi I was just wondering if anyone cold provide any guidnace on resetting the baseline in P6 when your project already has progress in it? For example, I have a project that has progress applied for 6 months and now have a Compensation Event (Delay Cl...