Hi allFairly new to the PP site so apologies if i am posting in the wrong feed.I am looking to demonstrate to a client that the increase in scope requested without increasing the duration at the work face will cause all sorts of resourcing problems.P...
Hi I am currently having an issue with am installation of PSNext in my environment, we have an older version of PSnext that is running in the environment, however it worked well with older versions of Java installed on hte user's computers up until v...
Peter Drucker, arguably the father of modern management, said "What gets measured, gets managed.”As we manage projects, the activities that we measure need to be carefully selected in order to achieve our organisational goals. One of the issues of on...
Whether you’re writing for a university project or a corporate client at some point it’s likely that most professions will have you writing a report. While for most people it’s not their favourite part of the job, it is a necessary one. When it’s don...
In most organizations, communication is not a solution, it’s a problem.It doesn’t matter how much the “leadership team” emphasize its importance; create many channels: email, phone, Skype, meetings; add it to the core values of the organization, or r...
Not sure why, but for some reason, the text formatting is not working when adding comments from safari on an iPhone. In order to have carriage returns included in the saved post I am having to manually add the < br > tag to get a line break. This is ...
When dealing with Date Variance it might be convenient to have the following options.Days vs Hours - some jobs are scheduled by the hour, some jobs use workdays with different hours. Date difference vs. Activity Calendar - at times it is of interest ...
Hello,Can anyone help understand the difference in between Time Impact Analysis and Window Analysis for the purpose of Extension of Time and delay analysis.I have refered to few methods but I feel both were same. I would appreciate any help in unde...
For people new to Microsoft Project (MSP), here is a link to a blog post on how to trace driving predecessor logic in Microsoft Project. It shows where to find MSP’s version of the “Driving” checkbox & “GoTo” button used to trace relationship logic ...
After export activity table from Primavera P6 to Excel, it’s very hard to distinguish WBS level. [[wysiwyg_imageupload:6262:]]I will show you how to color WBS level automatically so we can have report like in P6.Step 1:Follow this article to insert t...
As mentioned in topic subject, What is the difference between "Bid, Tender, Offer, and Proposal" ?
I have 24 different equipment (3 columns, 10 exchanger, 11 drums) for maintenance. The date and Month of maintenance is not decided yet. And Schedule should be in such a way that, once the Project start date is changed all the maintenance dates have ...
I have a resource loaded project, and I would like to examine this project's resource allocation in P6 EPPM 18.8 Team Usage. But every time I select the Team Usage tab I get the below message:Information: One or more projects are not published. Publi...
Hi,I am presently at the point in time where I need to decide what and how I want to continue to develop.Just a little introduction about my background, I have a degree in Civil Engineering and have approximately 10 years experience as a Project Plan...
While updating progress of my Project schedule, I am getting some values of unit% complete and physical % complete against certain value of schedule % complete, with each scheduling BUT.. why I am not getting performance % complete? Performance % com...
Hello Everyone, Need some help. Can we Export Activity to Excel and then populate the resorce in it and import it back to P6. And that too if the same activity has multiple resource like, Activity - Foundation for TankResource:Steel Fixer - 40 HrsCar...
Hi All,As specified in Fidic Contracts, if the Contractor failed to meet the progress rate as agreed in the approved Baseline Schedule, he needs to submit a recovery schedule, elaborating how he intends to recover his delays and bring the Project bac...
Hi All, I want to calculate the estimate weights for individual activities based on the labour units for Top down estimation. My idea is to use Global change where in I can divide individual activity's labour unit by the total labour unit of WBS. Whe...
Hello everyone! Sorry for bad english and grammar, I am not a native speaker... I work at small metal metallurgical plant in East Europe. We produce different pieces of metal, they can be divided by size, materials, strength and so on. We have own...
Hi all, I Have problem after importing project to primavera p6 17.7 , everything is ok except the resources names become and appear in a starnge symbols, tried to change fonts from table font and row option , but no changes, Also changed the windows ...