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consolidation of activities instead of summarizing

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For a forensic claim I need to summarize and consolidate several activities as allowed in the forensic protocol.This is a job where there is only a Baseline Schedule submitted and an intermediate update that was never submitted. For this reason I hav...

Feb 10, 2012

revised baseline date problem

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I have a project in p6 with a fixed baseline. after 25% of the project is finished, it was discussed and agreed to fix a new baseline from the current project,due to some issues. Now the the following problems i am facing; 1. Activities which are in ...

Feb 11, 2012

Updating Schedule in P6

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Good Day Guys; I'm in transition form P3 to P6, I got already the schedule but my problem is when I update my schedule the "Plan Value Cost" didn't appear only The "Earned Value Cost", your help in this situation is highly appreciated.   Thanks and B...

Feb 11, 2012

Resources in primavera P6

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hello;   what is the best way to allocate resources that are not involved in the execution of the works (not productive) as secretary, finance, accounting, quality manager, director, project manager ... etc..

Feb 11, 2012

Critical Path

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Is this definition is still true:"the duration of a critical path is the sum of the durations of critical tasks that it is made"?in my opinion it's different.see this example attached.[[wysiwyg_imageupload::]][[wysiwyg_imageupload:892:]]

Feb 12, 2012

Costs & S Curves & EVA

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Dear PlannersDo you know How to get the costs and S Curves set up to link with the BOQ cost plan and EVA mystery revealed?Thank you,

Feb 12, 2012

Project Progress Monitoring Systems

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Hi there everyone, I am hoping to get some of your views on construction project progress monitoring systems, this is to aid my work towards my final year research project at Loughborough university. There is a link to a simple and short questionnair...

Feb 12, 2012

Schedule Update Report

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I have been requested to prepare a report regarding the monthly update of the schedule. My manager told me it should be around 5 pages. What should this report contain? Are there any formats for this kind of reports? Is someone willing to share a sam...

Feb 12, 2012

Constrains

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I have a problem and I want to explain this with an example, if anyone could help me, I would be very glad There is a A activity, this activity starts at 1 february and finish 1 april according to schedule and duration is 60 days ( 1 april - 1 februa...

Feb 13, 2012

Free Float higher than Total Float

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Primavera did it again. How can that Free Float is Higher than Total Float (for activities with Total Float >=0). It is sufficient that, inside the schedule, you have some activities with negative Total Float. Has anybody experienced the same problem...

Feb 13, 2012

Calculate Finish Dates on P6.

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Hi,I give an example.  Let's say i have an activity which start date is January 2, 2012 with 4 days duration finish date is January 6, 2012.  The successor activity must start on January 7, 2012 with Finish to Start relationship.  But all activities ...

Feb 13, 2012

Budget at Completion vs Budgeted Expense Cost

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Hi there, In one of my many projects,  I have a Budgeted Expense Cost for a selected activity (let’s say $500K)  but  Budgeted At Completion column is still zero.I have more than 15 projects with almost the same structure with expense cost which do n...

Feb 14, 2012

activities having more negative total float, than summary total float

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I am having difficulty in understanding, because i received a schedule in P6 and just detailed more, i added some activities. but when I scheduled it and take a closer look on the floats, one activity ( precomm,and commissioning) are having -86, but ...

Feb 14, 2012

Design Program by phase and trade

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Hello everyone!!! Would you please help me with a Building Design Program dependencies between Architectural, Structural, MEP and Interiors through Concept-Schematic-Detail Design and Construction Documentation?   Thank you for your help!!!!

Feb 14, 2012

Migrating files from one laptop to another

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Hi all I'm liking the Oracle support who got me up and running with my old P3.1 software on my new laptop with no fuss whatsoever.. Is anyone able to explain how I can migrate my old files across please ? I've had a look at the files themselves and t...

Feb 14, 2012

Completion and start dates on P6 schedule

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Hi,For some reason the P6 installed on my laptop calculates start date as finish date completes.  For example:Activity 1, Duration 4 days, Start January 2, 2012, Finish January 5, 2012 Activity 2 Start must be January 6, 2012 since it's successor to ...

Feb 14, 2012