Dear All,I'm currently working on preparaing interface and access dates document for a railway construction project,which includes viaduct,electrical track depot,rolling stock and inspection ,I'm expecting some ideologies, details to consider for pr...
Dear all,The manpower budgeted time of most of the activities keep changing over and over which also change the overall budgeted time in the resource assignment. Is there any ability to make them fixed as I built them in the beginning of the project?...
Morning all, I have a milestone in a plan and want it to reflect the earliest of it's predecessors rather than its last. Any idea how i can do this with P6?Thanks, Thom
Seemingly (without defaulting to Excel) we STILL can't generate in P6 Early and Late cumulative progress curves which form a natural continuum (at the data date) from the cumulate Actual progress curve !Or am I missing something ??
In an normal environment with an Owner, a CM, and a Contractor what is the the case for and against putting a Float Activity at the end to keep critical path zero for simplicity etc and to key on time left at the end. The definition of Ctitical Path...
Hello everyone:I have been working with the SDK in the P6 version 8.3, and I interacted without problems between the database and the SDK spreadsheets. After to upgrade to version 8.3.15 the spreadsheet Activity6v6.xls works partially: every time I t...
Hi there!I require to show the project progress in terms of duration % complete but the issue is that the assigned baseline duration % complete doesn't auto update. I now am updating actuals on baseline seperately to get the data. Is there a way wher...
Dear all,I have hammock activity Boundary wall works with no budgeted labor units assigned to that activity.But after updating programme this activity showing Planned Value labor Units and Earned Value Labor Units 4312 & 5778. Please advise why it s...
how boq and Drawing assist contractor in formulation of tender?
Hi Guys,If a programme has a default Global calendar with two days a week off ( sat/sunday), and it is ticked as default in calendars. But, the individual activities have three different calendars, 6 days a week, 7 days a week and the default one, st...
Hello. I am a project manager for a design consultancy and we currently use P6 to manage out programmes, and then an excel sheet as a visual representation for lookahed purposes. My manager has requested that i investigate whether there is a better ...
Hi - I am unable to import Microsoft Project (XML) to P6. There is an article on Oracle Support about it.Could someone with an Oracle support account login (link below) and let me know what the solution is please.https://support.oracle.com/knowledge/...
After receiving drawings and BOQ's from client what would be the the next procedure toward project execution of Piping project.?
I'm struggling to identify the best way to implement a baseline change to my P6 projects once they have begun to be progressed. The scenario I'm considering is one in which the Baseline Schedule needs to always match the contract. Part-way through e...
I have been asked as a client-planner to produce an impact analysis in the graphical form of a delay which has been raised by contractor accepted by the client. Apparently what comes to mind is an S curve to forecast new completion date considering ...
Hi,How to deal with the inexusable delay if the contractor does not deserve extension of time and money compensation? I mean if the contractor does not deserve the EOTand he can not meet the completion date, what does the owner do? best,Muataz
Hi,How Can I prepare a monthly cash flow report(Budgeted vs Actual) without resource loading in P6, only by putting the budget against each activity?Thanks in advanceTony
Hi there everyone. Most of the program I did and managed for several years are usually incorporated in a single master program so its very seldom (and been a while) that I had to use external logic between 2 or more projects.So my situation:Project ...
I need some help please. I have two seperate schedules linked together by activity ID's, but on a monthly basis I will need to update and produce copy files and re-write the links because they are not retainied. The Project ID changes but not the Act...
Hello,The project I am working on has been bogged down during preconstruction and the Owner has directed us to add resubmittal activities for each submittal that had a revision. Unfortunately, that is more or less all of them, and the previous sched...