I think we cannot have an activity with 2 relationships with the same successor activity(we need to decide the best logic) but my supervisor says we can have both SS+lag and FF+lag for one successor ! How can it be possible? it should be either SS+la...
Can anyone share with me free studying material to understand the different methods of delay analysis?
Hello Gurus! I have always been taught (maybe incorrectly) and used hard constraints - Start On / Finish On - for the first and last activity in my P6 schedule. I have completely stayed away from soft constraints because I'm not familiar with them a...
Hello Again! I have another P6 question......We have set up a filter for 2 week look ahead and it works. However, instead of using the high value of DD+2W, we changed it to DD +13d (due to projects having different data dates). The problem is, we a...
EDA BlogsI’ve decided to place all future articles on a blog page on my website.These are the links to my published articles.Corona disruption – a precise method of how to calculate the disruption caused by coated 19.https://www.expertdelayanalysis.c...
Morning all, I've recently had installed a newer (17.3) version of P6. I've got a copy of a submission from last month which I'm comparing to a submission this week. However for some reason the dates aren't coming through correctly.I've assigned th...
Writing the Work Breakdown Structure Dictionary must be done right at the beginning of the project planning stages. This article shows how. https://bibloteka.com/how-to-create-a-professional-wbs-dictionary/
1. Problem or Opportunity StatementA series of blogs in reference to an ongoing PMO set up for a Governmental owner will be posted in the coming days, this to set up all the processes to monitor the construction of two hospitals. Our perspective is f...
Is there a way to adjust the field size or font size to make the values readable in this view. The only time I can read the values is when i set the time scale to days.I want to see what I have and make adjustments before i move it over to Excel. tha...
Hello All, How would you represent Duration and Hours in Minutes. If you want the duration to be 15 minutes what would we type it in hours 0.15H or the duration is 45 min = 0.45H If we want a resource to work 1/2 an hour would we type 0.30H or if a r...
I am starting to think that what makes a great schedule is what you don't put in it - what should you leave out? for example: P6 schedule make a bad, redundant Submittals log (why do it twice) P6 should just have the dates from the log that effect d...
No matter your role, you are accountable to someone. As we ascend the organizational ladder, stakeholder management becomes an increasingly more critical skill.Stakeholder management is the ongoing process of identifying, evaluating, and engaging t...
Hello,I am working on a project that will have multiple bid packages awarded over a 2 year period, so the schedule will grow as each bid package is awarded. The owner wants us to use earned value management. My plan is to create a high level schedule...
Has anyone incorporated a Supplier Schedule (From Microsoft Project) from a supplier, to monitor their performance and Earned Value, into their Project's P6 Schedule?Is there any tips or information, UDFs, consistency advice across formats and genera...
The predecessor completion date and successor start date are the same. For Example, if predecessor finishes on 04th Feb-18, 04:00 PM the successor start on 04th Feb-18, 04:00 PM instead of 05th Feb-18, 08:00 AM with 0 days lag. Kindly Help me to figu...
How to Mix the ‘And’ and the ‘Or’ Options in One FilterBuilding a filter where all the conditions are either ‘And’ or ‘Or’ between each row is pretty straight forward. However, if you want to mix them up a little it’s not so obvious how you should do...
Hi all,I currently work at a company where, as of September, there is no longer going to be a requirement for a planner within the company (that planner being me!). Myself and several other colleagues in Project Controls will leave the company due to...
Good day everyone! I'm a novice user of Project, and i have problems with clients causing delays, and i wish to show this(if you agree this is the place to do it), within my ghantt chart for client, consultant and contractor to see this,,for my endg...
Hi,I'm trying to decompress a PRX file using the restore option in SureTrak. Whenever I click restore the software froze and has a message saying it is not responding. I tried to wait and not close the software but nothing seems to happen. Does anyon...
When we use Earned Value Management technique, we focus on:Planned Value Cost (PV) = Budget At Completion * Schedule % CompleteEarned Value Cost (EV) = Budget At Completion * Performance % Complete (usually equal to Activity % Complete)Schedule Varia...