I've created an activity and set it's duration type as fixed duration and units/time and percent complete type to physical. I've assigned two resources as 20/d units/time, 1000 units and 50 durations.Later on, I've updated schedule on 25th day of thi...
Hi Everyone,Been a while since i have been here, glad to be back.I am considering a new planning position in a new sector (semiconductor industry) and having some trouble with the terminology they use, can anyone tell me what a "WIF Schedule" is?Also...
In this tutorial, I will show you 2 methods of displaying ordinal dates in a Primavera P6 schedule, the first method uses Microsoft Excel and the second uses Global Change facility in P6. Ordinal dates schedules are usually required when a project do...
Is anyone aware of the process for setting up formulas in P6 v. 20.1. Its been a while since I utilized formulas in the system, and can't seem to find any correct instructions on how to complete this that references the newer versions. Following the...
Is anyone aware of the process for setting up formulas in P6 v. 20.1. Its been a while since I utilized formulas in the system, and can't seem to find any correct instructions on how to complete this that references the newer versions. Following the...
"Received for Record" - does this mean neither approved or rejected so contractor can get paid? - And leave the owner more time to negotiate issues with the contractor without holding up payment? Do you see this much more now?
There are many tools to help project teams manage their work, collaborate, and track performance. The number of options is overwhelming—Capterra has published over 900-project management tool reviews. I teach project management classes and am often ...
I can only think of tonage foot - but that makes no sense? I was an estimator at one point & checked google, I am at a loss.
I've recently been asked to take over a team of Planners by my boss however the team are using Microsoft Project whereas the rest of the company uses P6.Having used P6 for 11 years I'm not new to Planning but am completely new to Microsoft Project an...
Good morning everyone,I would like to link the Percent Complete to the Progress Period so that when I am looking at each Progress Period, the Percent Complete entered will reflect that Progress Period. This relationship is present with the Progress P...
Hello Vladimir, For some time I have seen you added a new field called Priority Relative. From what I have read in the manual Spider considers priorities as follows: a). Phase priority is the highest priority and if a phase has a priority then the ac...
Greetings Planners,Based on what to estimate the planned progress for a building project that includes sub-structure and super-structure items (steel fixing, shuttering, casting, deshuttering, slab on grade ect.I have quantities for steel and quantit...
Hi all,I have multiple progress periods, and for some reason, the slip values in the slip column disappear on all progress periods past the 5th one. For all progress periods 1-4, I have had no issues.I am basing the slip on a baseline.Nothing has cha...
Excel Schedules have their uses. (I am a 33 year P3/P6 user also) What is the best one we can get a copy of that you have seen? - price not being an issue either. For example from the MS template database etc. CATEGORY 1 - EASY FOR CONSTRUCTION S...
Sometimes during tender or bid submission for a project, the client might not provide a Project start date and bidders would be required to show ordinal dates in the Gantt chart timeline and calendar days in the start and finish dates columns, so tha...
Hi All, I am using MS Project 2016 and want to renumber a selection of activities but the renumber wbs selected task in ms project 2016 is greyed out. I have tried the task sheet view and removing the autofilter, nothing works Please help. regards...
An engineer does a complicated 15 -20 page schedule that they have worked on for a year as part of the design documents. Then the contractor wins the project and has 60 days to start from scratch to produce a better one - this makes no sense, it is ...
By default, Microsoft Project does not have a baseline percent (%) complete field or column like you would find in other scheduling software like Primavera P6.This video outlines steps to follow if you want to display a baseline percent (%) complete ...
Hi, I have added an expense to my activity. Is it possible that the 'actual cost' of the expense change as physical % complete of the activity changes? Thanks
Afternoon all, Looking for a bit of advice regarding 4d planning software, Not sure what thread to put this is.I am a construction planner currently working for a tier 1 Contractor in the UK , we are looking to use a current project as an exemplar t...