PMSDK-Resource Baseline Information
Forum TopicHi All, Anyone knows if there is any way to call resource "baseline" information (like baseline budget and baseline time distributed data) by PMSDK? Regards,manochehr
Jan 8, 2014
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Baseline
Forum TopicHi everyone! What happens when you take a snapshot (baseline) of current update but the dates differ when you assign it as the primary baseline. The dates are different when you add BL1 start and finish column for comparison. Has anyone experienced t...
Jan 8, 2014
missing data while exporting-importing
Forum TopicDear all,During either the export or import process from P6 in xer file, a substantial amount of the resources data (MHRS) is lost.That happens even when I reimport the file to my database.When I copy – paste the schedule everything is ok. I assume t...
Jan 8, 2014
The finish date of my project is off by a few days.
Forum TopicHello, Im doing a schedule for school where a project started on June 25, 2012. The project duration is 584 calendar days from the start date, which the finish date will be January 29, 2014. I created a new calendar to represent "calendar days" mean...
Jan 9, 2014
Question on Lag
Forum TopicWhat is the implication of using both positive and nagative lags on a programme and what are the benefits?
Jan 9, 2014
Use Performance factor to calculate remaining hours spread for histograms
Forum TopicHello,I am trying to incorporate a productivity factor to my hours to finish the project to show an accurate spread of hours/resources needed in Histograms. However i don't want to change my remaining to earn hours (for S-Curves). Ideally i would l...
Jan 9, 2014
Use Performance factor to calculate Hours to Spread in Histogram
Forum TopicHello,I am trying to incorporate a productivity factor to my hours to finish the project to show an accurate spread of hours/resources needed in Histograms. However i don't want to change my remaining to earn hours (for S-Curves). Ideally i would l...
Jan 9, 2014
Convention/Best Practice on Including Recurring Meetings in Project Schedule
Forum TopicI did a search before posting both on "best practices" and "recurring activities" to see if this question had already been answered but I didn't see that it had. My question is this, is there any documentation (by any group, body, society, or agency)...
Jan 9, 2014
Schedule Logic
Forum TopicAll,I am reviewing a P6 schedule submitted by a Subcontractor, the schedule has;6,793 total activities which includes;512 date constraints463 activities without predecessors126 activities without successors1 activity on the Longest PathIn the Contrac...
Jan 10, 2014
Two Ambitious Goals for Your PMO in 2014
Forum TopicAt Ten Six, we see a couple of themes and goals for this year which include raising the strategic profile of the PMO and improving its approach to organizational skill development. Here we take a look at both of these goals. http://ow.ly/sspOI
Jan 10, 2014
Advance Payment
Forum TopicI have a Client and a Contractor both difficult to manage both don't adhere too much to the contract clauses due to some kind of friendship . My problem is the advance payment , the contractor included it on his baseline schedule on the critical p...
Jan 10, 2014
Budget Cost Loaded
Forum TopicDear Planners,I assigned resourses to the activities, some of the assigned resources I loaded with Budget Cost, but after I changed the duration of those activities and the activity calendar, I detected that some of the assigned resources are not loa...
Jan 10, 2014
View of All Costs by Cost Account
Forum TopicHello Planners,Is there a view in P6, that allows me to view ALL costs, grouped as per the 'cost account' hierarchy?E.g. I have some activities cost loaded with resources, and other activities cost loaded with expenses. Some activities are loaded wit...
Jan 13, 2014
Graphical Representations of Gantt Charts and Linear Diagrams
Forum TopicMy appologies for posting off topic.I pasted the conversation regarding colors and paterns in this post in order to bring the subject "up to speed".Bogdan's Initial post:I saw in one of the Spider Team publications ("Tools and Techniques of Project a...
Jan 13, 2014
What is the best approach to update multiple project files in P6?
Forum TopicHappy New Year to All. I have inherited a set of 4 project schedule files to update in P6, all of them belonging to the same project. Also, all of them are resource loaded (resources have been assigned to level of effort type of activities, not at ...
Jan 13, 2014
activity network
Forum Topicdear allIn activity network, can we re-organise the activities as per bar chart according to timescale
Jan 13, 2014
Exporting from Primavera P6 to Microsoft Project
Forum TopicExporting from Primavera P6 to Microsoft Project has many problems and here we look at one of the most common ones http://ow.ly/swEVZ
Jan 13, 2014
difference between Primavera PPM and EPPM
Forum TopicHello I will buy primavera p6 What is the difference between ppm and eppm? Does eppm include everything ppm is capable of and more? Is eppm only web based or desktop usage also possible like in ppm?
Jan 13, 2014
Project Expenses Filter
Forum TopicHello Planners,Me again...Is there a way to filter for specific project expense allocations in the 'project expenses' view? The filter icon is greyed out. Is this something can be fixed in admin preferences? or am I pushing the limits of P6?It seems ...
Jan 14, 2014
Cost Allocation
Forum TopicHi EveyoneCan someone please help me, I assigned costs to a programme which basically is to sit back to back with an estimate. The prgramme consists of 5 LoE activities running from 02 Jan 2014 to 31 March 2014. However when I produced the stacked hi...
Jan 14, 2014