is sans-baseline becoming de riguer? - a rhetorical question.CPM baselines are snarky by nature. Many project teams regard them as ends in themselves: issued preliminarily, and then discarded, as opposed to “that to which all that follows shall be co...
Stakeholders struggle mightily with the definition of the terms baseline, recovery,mitigation, and completion schedules, and how they differ from one another. That is most unfortunate for CPM schedulers who invariably are handed client directives tha...
The central focus of construction project schedules is invariably on the build-out trajectory, or more specifically, the builder’s work and responsibilities. Despite design deliverables residing squarely within the critical path, they are seldom adeq...
"Out of the Ivory Tower, and into the Trenches: is the building industryever receptive to new technologies before they are outdated?Google has recently begun making its long anticipated self-3D mapping software Project Tango, available to developers ...
Designers will forced to begrudgingly collaborate with builders in program coordination: they will sink or swim in these unchartered waters.Despite the hype - such as that which I brought to light in McGraw Hill’s skewed Annual BIM Survey, there soon...
Dear All,May be it seems stupid to ask this question but still i will prefer to ask.In construction schedules, most of the activities go parallel. What logic do you people prefer while doing your schedule.It is very difficult to make whole schedule o...
Hi, In the Resource Usage Profile I am trying to display the histogram by Month with the number of men shown down the left hand side rather than the hours for the month.I display the columns by Month by setting the Timescale to Quarter/Month.I then ...
Primavera support you to control project performance by Earned Value Management technique.I will show you how to use it in Primavera.We have a simple project to finish casting 10 column.1 column / day.100 $ / columnEach activity is assigned resource ...
Dear Friends, I got a program for review .I forgot to filter the activities dont have FS relations . Please help.
Global calendars appear to be the way to go when creating a new calendar definition. But there are sound reasons for defining a calendar limited or restricted to a specific project http://ow.ly/lhpo3031MsP
Dear Family MembersWhat is the maximum and minimum Lag allowed in a program??What is the maximum Activity duration can be allowed in a program??What is the maximum and total float allowed in a program ?? RegardsArun.V
Hi,We are looking at cost loading our schedules, but we have hit a snag in that our operatives are paid an overtime factor of x1.5 on Saturday mornings, and a factor of 2.0 on Saturday Afternoon->Sunday .Is there a way of specifying different rates f...
On a scale of (perfectly ok) 1 - 10 (Never) - How bad is it to change activity ID's on large projects...I am reviewing a large project and the contractor has changed 500 of the 2200 activity IDs. I is a job that they are strugling with creating a sc...
Hello, I'm assigning resources to activities on my plan and as the project has not started yet I would expect the remaining units to be the same as the budgeted units. So basically if I have a 5 day duration activity and the resource will work 20 hou...
Greetings to All.I am making a schedule on P6 in which my project original duration appears to be very less. But whenever i check "hide if empty" in group and sort tab, It shows the project's correct original duration. Is there something wrong with m...
Dear Frndswhile updating the programm (At completion units) will be change. how can i fix it?can you explain me details?i am waiting your valuable reply.Thanks.....
Best % type & Duration Type or mix for large construction projects? What works best while keeping it simple. Using too many types means that you have to open up the type & multiple columns to understand the numbers and to explain to PM’s. It can be...
Best % type & Duration Type or mix for large construction projects? What works best while keeping it simple. Using too many types means that you have to open up the type & multiple columns to understand the numbers and to explain to PM’s. It can be...
Hi All,I am a very experienced Asta Powerproject user, curently working as a planner for a civil engineering company in Hampshire.If anyone is looking for any freelance planning done please feel free to contact me at any time.Kind regards,Charlotte
Hi All,I am a very experienced Asta Powerproject user, curently working as a planner for a civil engineering company in Hampshire.If anyone is looking for any freelance planning done please feel free to contact me at any time.Kind regards,Charlotte