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Project Control in Construction for Mining

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Zero Float

 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 [...

News: Friday 27th April 2012

NEWS UPDATE...[[wysiwyg_imageupload:1044:height=80,width=207]]Dear Planners, Schedulers and Project Controls Professionals.Here is an update from us with some current and, we hope, pertinent news.Regards... Planning Planet TeamGUILD OF PROJECT CONTRO...

"Mr P6 Heavy Civils"

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Promotion of activity codes in Oracle Primavera P6

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...

"Mr Risk"

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Risk Registers or Schedule Analysis

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 ...

Optimistic and Pessimistic Durations

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...

Defining Activity Codes in Primavera 6 R8.1

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...

Delay Analysis

News: Friday 6th April 2012

NEWS UPDATE..Dear Planners, Schedulers and Project Controls Professionals.Here is an update from us with some current and, we hope, pertinent news.Regards... Planning Planet TeamPLANNER & SCHEDULER AWARDS...The Planning & Scheduling Awards and Sympos...

Calendar for scheduling relationship lags

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...

Introduction to Primavera 6 R8.1 (P6 R8.1)

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...