Referred article on DCMA 14 Metrics, from Deltek website, regarding DCMA 14-Point Schedule Assessment: https://help.deltek.com/Product/Acumen/8.6/GA/DCMA%2014%20Point%20Assessment%20Metric%20Descriptions.html
The Department of Defence, and particularly CASG have been involved in the development of PGCS since its inception in 2013. This year is no different with a powerful line up of speakers in the Defence Stream, and special access to the Symposium detai...
Post ID/comment number is not fixed but every time a new post is creater the number 1 is re-assigned to last entry.This makes it hard/impossible to make reference to a prior post using a simple ID number.It wold be better if the post number at the to...
There was a rate change on my schedule. All ended activities accepted the changes without any issue same with all future activities without actual. My problem is that all Activities that are in progress and exceeded the current data date are still re...
Hello All, I have recieved an excel spreadsheet that contains about 500 rows and 8 columns.The columns are:Project IdProject Nameand 6 other columns that match our Project Code directory. My question is, do you know of a way that this spreadsheet can...
GuysIm looking to saw cut some drainage in an existing basement. The slab is 400mm & im putting in around 120 LM of drainage in various runs & 3 pcc manholes. What I need is a rate to cut the slab using a saw cutter. Any help appreciated Andrew
If a contract uses NTP and Substantial Completion dates in the bid documents, and the NTP starts significantly after, such as 50 days. What would you call simply sliding the timeframe. It should not require a change order because the odds of starti...
See this Video to learn about how you can use the SDK Magic Tool to draw tens of S-Curves for your Primavera Projects in just few minutes.1- Main Curves BCWP, BCWS and ACWP are included in one step.2- You can draw 40 S-Curves for costs.3- You can dra...
Whilst I have imported MSP files many times I have only ever exported P6 to MSP once several years ago. Running 17.12.8, the PM has asked for an MSP export file but he can't open an mpx which I gather is for old versions of MSP. Everytime I try to ex...
Hello,My project management level of effort (LOE) activity has progressed Duration % Complete 7.89%, but the actual labor units of the assigned labor resource is not populating. I tried the below:1) Actions | Recalculate assignment costs.2) Schedule ...
Tensix has a good article on a feature in P6 that is oftentimes taken for granted but is actually an important aspect of using the software whether for record-keeping, forensics, analysis, or facilitating project teams for schedule development and up...
Everyone tells me they are busy. They are on video or conference calls from morning until evening. On average, workers receive over 100 emails per day and send at least 40. A common complaint is, “I spend my entire day meeting and doing email; an...
When it comes to generating Primavera P6 data for use in Excel to plot progress s-curves, the recommended practice is to use Resources as basis for progress measurement in P6, but there are times when it is not possible to use Resources either becaus...
Hi All, I am running P6 20. Standalone. How do I set the Fiscal Period to Start in July 1st? Thanks, Rod
I have a question on how to setup the Mega/Complex project structure.the project cost is more than $1 billion, the execution team come from more than 4 region, each region has at least 2 teams. all the team member should charge hours, and their charg...
I am a planning and project control professional with 15 years of post qualification experience. So far what my understanding is that career growth opportunity in project management functional domain is quite high and like my fellow professionals I a...
Hi everybody,Do you know if there is a specific rule / code / good practice to measure folowing ratio : Qty of Task / Qty of links ?I know that DCMA proposes to check 14 points throught schedule, and the closer one to check the logic. But this doesn'...
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Attempts at an accurate schedule vs owner insistence on 21 Cal. Day review times. These are not always compatible - what is your opinion. I have argued that average is better, and that just because you have less than 21 days in the schedule doesn't ...
Hi All,Once a week, i update and schedule my P6. This week I noticed that some of activities' Total Actual Units doesnt Equal for the same week Cum At Completion Labor Units.In my case they all should be the same, I think (Because my Budgeted Labor U...