If you are one of the persons that will interview candidates for a Planner & Scheduler position, what questions would you ask him / her?
23 years ago I left the construction industry & became a fire fighter. I’m now a mid level senior officer. I’m considering starting up a one man construction planning consultancy. If it works out I may leave the fire service at some point. I complete...
HiMy manager has asked me to show 3 baselines on one bar. Shown me the output One bar for one activity, with 3 colours per baseline overlapping to show delay - rather than the usual stack arrangment
I'm kicking off the planning of a 200,000 hr shutdown due in 12 months. Previous shut downs here have used extensive resource logic between physically unrelated activities as a way of manually resources.I'm not a fan of resource linking, I'd rather u...
I need to link the Engineering portion of an EPC schedule of an oil & gas project to the Procurement portion where I have tagged equipments and bulk materials. The first activity of the Procurement portion for each purchase order is "Issue RFQ" (Requ...
Hello,I'm looking to analyse the critical path of a part-completed programme for a project, however, tasks that are 100% complete or have been progressed do not show up as critical.Is there any way of showing progressed items as critical without havi...
Hi,I'm currently a junior civil engineer (2-3 years experience) working for a consultancy, and have developed in interest in project planing/cost control as a future career. I'm just wondering what can I do to become more knowledgeable in this area?I...
In Primavera P6 we can have a combination relationship i.e an activity can have same predecessor twice, once with Start-Start relationship & another with Finish- Finish relationship. Is it a good practice to have such type of combination relationship...
When I import an MS project file, the duration of the activities are divided by 3.For example an actitivity has in MS Project a duration of 20 days and after import in PRA only 7 days.I tried to change the import parameters and match the number of ho...
Hello,I am taking a 17 hour plane flight and thought a good scheduling eBook would either make some nice light reading, or an effective sleeping agent.Does anyone know of a good eBook about CPM scheduling, or something particular to P6?I'm hoping for...
Dear all,I took on an EPC programme as a client-planner with three different contractors on it. At the end of the month, these three contractors submit their programmes separately, and I analysed and produced various reports for Senior Management cur...
Hello everyone, I am a construction student using asta to build a schedule for a project I am working on. Now, I have built the entire schedule start to finish, but unfortunetly I have forgotten to add my preconstruction tasks, which, are required fo...
OK, so we had this problem importing XML files into P6 and it stumped us for a while. It turns out it was a bug in P6 Professional version 18.8 and there is a patch to fix it http://ed.gr/blcwhI hope this helps other folks that have been struggling w...
I see in P6, based on the default settings at project level, the activity ID gets incremented automatically when we copy an activity. Is there similar setting somewhere for auto incrementing of Project Number at EPS level when we create a project, pl...
I see in P6, based on the default settings at project level, the activity ID gets incremented automatically when we copy an activity. Is there similar setting somewhere for auto incrementing of Project Number at EPS level when we create a project, pl...
Hi, I'm looking for some advice on deleting activities on a plan. I need to delete some activities which are no longer valid and redistribute hours to new activities. The plan has been baselined. What is the best way for me to do this? I'm looking fo...
Hello,During a process of passing XERs back and forth with a consultant, all activity codes for about 2000 activities were deleted.Are there any automated ways of adding them back in using a previous version where the codes still exist?Thanks
Hi Schedule Experts,Just to pick up your brain a bit; what is the best automatic method to identify second, third, fourth etc. Longest Path's in Primavera P6? I have a complex schedule with many constraints and resource levening and unfortunately the...
Hello :-) How do i get the duration to show just whole numbers e.g. 15w not 14.8wThe project is Mon to Fri 9-5pm.I need to show the completion date as a friday not a sunday but still have the week as a whole number.I have Sat & Sun as none working da...
Hello, While I am familiar with reading various forms of schedules, (MS Project, Primavera, Excel), I am admittedly not proficient at manipulating the software. In trying to educate myself thorugh YouTube, I have found that all of the instructional v...