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Schedule % Complete in P6 is Duration based.

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Dear ExpertsI have a question on Primavera P6.  As far as i know, duration is not an appropriate unit to determine the plan or actual percentage of a project  at a particular time given. The more accurate is manhours.    Now, the schedule % complete ...

Mar 8, 2022

Non Labor Units Changes

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Dear Members, I am updating my project,on a specific activity i have non labor unit assigned 30h when i am progressing the activity to 80% i am updating my actual units to 24h and remaining to 6h but when i run the schedule after updating the units i...

Mar 11, 2022

The Origins of Cost Engineering

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The latest paper in our series on the origins of project controls has been published in the March edition of Project Management World Journal.This paper traces the origins of accounting, through cost accounting, to cost engineering. Download the full...

Mar 12, 2022

Is there a way to adjust display of successor , predecessor column?

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Hello,For example if I enter a link such as 4SS+2, the successor colun shows it as 4SS+2 days. I do not want it to write "days" there. Because I have limited print space and just because of word "days" I am losing horizontal print area. Is there a wa...

Mar 14, 2022

Capacity Planning Challenges

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Managing capacity planning bottlenecks has been a challenge sometimes for even experienced managers. What are the effective ways to deal with these bottlenecks and streamline capacity planning?

Mar 15, 2022

EVM Queries - What would you do to help?

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You are 15 months into a 4 year JV process plant project,(FIDIC Type Contract, Seperate OoC / IC)  and the EVM data is just pushing your project into the RED status. Your Project Director is putting pressure on you, as PCM, to make the numbers look b...

Mar 15, 2022

P6 removes remaining labour units and costs when actualising finish.

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Hi all, I'm just after some clarification rather than help for a change. it's something we've not noticed before and it could just be us but when we actualise the finish date of an activity has P6 always removed remaining costs and units automaticall...

Mar 16, 2022

Peace needs dialogue

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Which part of the peace process is helped by removing Vladimir's email from Plannng Planet?

Mar 17, 2022

Delay compensation or not when baseline had float?

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just would like a general opinion on this issue.  In short on DT3, the Contractor Submitted a Baseline that had 3 months float.  The work was dependent on the big contract moving a sewer first, which they are now moving that 3 months later.  One opin...

Mar 22, 2022

Creation of Exclusion Period

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Hi, I have a project  where I have split the fit out of a floor area into a number of different sections call them area 1,2,3 & 4.  Area 1 has UFH and so whilst this is being layed and screeded will restrict access to the other areas which come off i...

Mar 22, 2022

Russia & the Ukraine War a force majeure event?

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On March 8, 2022, President Joseph R. Biden Jr. issued an Executive Order on Prohibiting Certain Imports and New Investments with Respect to Russia & the Ukraine War (“March 8, 2022, Executive Order”).   Some specs may consider this Change in Law can...

Mar 23, 2022

How to schedule un -splittable tasks

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Hello Planners,one customer of mine is asking the fommowing question, I have to admit that I am not able to answer it; does anybody have an idea?**************My project takes place during Scheduled Machine Shutdowns (SMS).Today when the different Ta...

Mar 25, 2022

Project Anti-Crashing Method

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Hi All,PMBOK and some other project management standards describe two key methods for schedule optimisation: fast-tracking and crashing.Apart from these well-known methods, there is a method that hasn’t been described widely. So, let’s feel in thegap...

Mar 28, 2022

Project calendars that are too conservative for workable days.

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Some states list a "Calendar" with typical working days for simple ROAD projects.  But simple road projects are more suseptible to rain than a rail project, but in this case they are using this "state calendar".  Its not like we will give credits or ...

Mar 29, 2022

Critical path drag

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Hi, I am working on my presentation for next Project Controls Expo and need your support. In one of previuos posts it was stated that Asta can calculate project critical path DRAG. Could anyone demostrate how it works in Asta? Thanks in advance. 

Mar 30, 2022

Resource Dates Don't Match Activity Dates

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We keep having the issue of resource dates randomly changing.  Not only do they not match the activity dates, after we fix them, a differnt batch crops up. I realize there is the check box to "drive activity dates" for a given resource assignment.  H...

Apr 4, 2022