Whilst the planner produces an integrate ovetall schedule using a software package to meet the contract spec at level 3 all the other disciplines have to do there own detailed planning Level 4/5 within the parameters of the schedule. They use excel s...
Slowly catching up after a very busy week with PC Expo in Melbourne as the highlight.I was honoured to be asked to perform the official welcome on behalf of the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) at the start of the two-day event. This year CIOB ...
Meteorologists are better at predicting the weather than project managers are at delivering projects. About a third of projects are delivered on time, on budget, and with the desired scope. By contrast, a seven-day forecast is accurate about 80% of...
Earned Work Management is a lightweight, approach-agnostic project performance measurement system that supports Waterfall, Scrum, and Kanban. This allows organizations employing different project approaches to measure project portfolio performance co...
Hi guys,I'm trying to understand how P6 calculates multiple paths using free float, specially when we have the same float. I wasn't able to find online any formula that explains it and i'm trying to reproduce it.Thanks for your support
Hello;I am starting to add budgeted labor units to my schedule. The activities have a duration type of "Fixed Duration and Units/Time.I set up my resource id's and assigned them to the activities. When I go to add the budgeted labor units of say 10...
HiGot a stange one. I'm running standalone as follows:About: Primavera P6 Professional 24 Release: 24.12.0.51267 Platform: x64 Database Schema Version: PPMDB,2412.0000.0000.0006PPMDBSQLite.dbEvery time I schedule the shared mode warning comes up. No ...
HI Guys, NEED SOME HELP in developing a PLANNING & PROJECT CONTROL MANUAL. I do appreciate your support to provide me a native file.
Hi,anybody got a pdf copy of the Project Schedule Requirements doc (personal use)[email protected]
Hi All, I want variance column to show opposite from default ,example baseline start date is 1 April but actual date is 2 April . The default variance , “ BL-start, “shows minus 1; I want to make a custom field to show the other way, +1 instead of mi...
Hi,Im attempting to import an MSP file in to P6.I have exported as an xml (after checking for blank lines and summary tasks etc) but the file doesnt open in P6.I have converted the mpp to mpx and then tried to import - however, I get the following er...
Hello,I have a schedule with a non-critical but resource-overallocated path through tasks A-B; and a critical path through task C, which is not resource-loaded. When I level the schedule, the path, including tasks A-B, becomes critical, and the path ...
Amid swirling rumors that Mark Twain was gravely ill, a journalist wrote to inquire about his health. The ever-witty Twain responded, “Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” Numerous articles, videos, and blog posts have declared, “Agile is de...
Hi,I need to build a new schedule and its structure is very similar to one already established. I copied the WBS from the old project to the new one, but I will need to perform lots of modifications, notably on WBS codes and names.Is there a way to p...
Dear ForumCould yo kindly help me please with my question that i am struggling much: There is task (actually lots of tasks, but for simplicity i will consider 1 task) that started at some time in the past and gradually was progressing on a daily basi...
At the beginning of my project management classes, I ask participants if they have any big, burning questions. Accountability always tops the list. Project managers face challenges when team members do not complete assignments on time or when stake...
Opinion or Assistance requested: Is there a different way to import & export to excel FILTERED pred / successor import data than to give the pred and successor a unique logic note code, then the matching activity a unique activity code. Otherwise t...
The default method of grouping tasks in Microsoft Project by Summary Tasks (WBS) works perfectly well for lookahead schedules, however adding another lookahead schedule View with tasks group by dates can be useful to the project team
Dear Planners, i'm using P6 version 24 Server , with 5 Users , every thing is ok, untill the user is leaving the P6 idle ( not used for 10 to 15 min, then when the user try to dop any filter or layout the below error showing up/ Event Code: Error C...
Hi, Can anyone help with what the Global Change Parameter 'Programme and Logic Changes' does? What kind of things can I change under this? Thanks in advance