Finish to Start: This relation is the default relation in P6 i.e. if a relation is drawn within two activities without mentioning the type of relation, by default P6 will assign it as Finish to Start relation. It is denoted by FS.Fini...
What is Scheduling? Now-a-days, in construction industry, the parameters that define the success of a project are delivering the required facility, at the required standard (quality), within the agreed Time and Budget. A commercial construction compa...
Project ControlSchedulingCost Control
This is a condition where there exists no free time between activities in the [[schedule]]. A [[schedule]] [[activity]] which has [[Zero Float]] is a [[Critical Activity]].If this [[activity]], or a driving or driven activity is delayed then the [...
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QUESTION Dear Mr P6 Civils,I know you can promote activity codes in P6. What I want to know can you promote project codes to EPS codes and EPS codes to Global Codes or is it just promoting project codes to Global Codes. I have promoted codes before...
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QUESTIONDear Mr Risk,We run intensive risk workshops every month where we run through an ever growing register of what might go wrong and form all sorts of aspects – quality, finance, war!, subcontractor problems, flood, collapse, changes as well as ...
QUESTION Dear Mr Risk,I have populated my schedule with optimistic and pessimistic durations that sit around the durations assigned in our proposed baseline. We have run our analysis package and produced a very nice ‘normal curve’ with various percen...
What are Activity Codes in P6? Activity codes can be assumed as Categories under which we categorize the activities. E.g. if a project has 3000 activities then it is very hard to manage all the activities or to filter out some specific act...
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QUESTION Dear Mr P6 Civils,When running our calculations in P6 8.2, we noticed that under schedule options, the calendar for scheduling relationship lags was set to Successor Activity Calendar. I assumed is should be scheduling off of Predecessor Ac...
By the Introduction to P6 R8.1, we mean the basic understanding and procedures required to start up a new project in P6 R8.1. As we know that the P6 is one of the leading softwares in the world in the field of Project Planning and COntrol; it has som...
The EPS (Enterprise Project Structure) is a logical, meaningful, hierarchical arrangement of all the projects in your organization. This is a view of the company showing its areas of operations.EPS is a hierarchical arrangement of projects in an orga...
Ownership of Float BACKGROUNDWho owns the float? The purpose of this article is not to re-invent the wheel and dwell in to the complexity which already revolves around this Million dollar question. However, this question commands utmost respect regar...
As I observed working at different international power plant construction project over the world, the huge amount of human mistakes is significantly grows from one project schedule update to another during the whole project lifecycle from kick-off me...
Aegis Project Controls’ primary purpose is to support project management teams in their efforts to minimize the duration, risk and cost associated with their projects. While critical Path Method schedules are widely recognized for their ability to ma...