Blog #5: Project Management in History: Adolf Hitler and the Balkans Fragnet is just up at the Total Project Control website This is a followup to the previous blog, Blog #4: Teddy Roosevelt and the Panama Fragnet. Just click on the Blog button at ...
I am working in a Project (Owner's rep.) where I have to create level 3 schedule from detailed level 4 schedule. What i do is to use work package WBS level as activities in my level 3 schedule.I tried exporting these level 4 activities to excel and c...
I am a new planning engineer with just a year of experience. I need to prepare the construction schedule for a chemical plant. I have the scope of work discipline wise. I am not able to determine the duration of each of the activities, example excava...
Dear all,Hello, I am involved in a MEP construction project for a high rise project in UAE, I am missing the productivity norms/standard manhours for electrical activities in order to monitor and compare prcisely the planned and actual p...
Here is a walk-through on how to install the new Primavera P6 Professional R8.4 using SQLite http://ow.ly/EwEGG
Hi GuysAppologies if this is an old chestnut but I have just moved jobs and using P6 V7 for the first time.Also new to this forumI am struggling to get the resource allocation data out of P6 and into xlsTried the wizard but still no joyCould anyone p...
Hi GuysAppologies if this is an old chestnut but I have just moved jobs and using P6 V7 for the first time.Also new to this forumI am struggling to get the resource allocation data out of P6 and into xlsTried the wizard but still no joyCould anyone p...
In my department there are many kpi's for maintenace planning such as schedule compliance , Planning and Scheduling Effectiveness (Actual versus Planned completion) ,emergancy man hours & rework man-hours.most of those reports are based on the actual...
Hi all,May i request you time to get some explanation regarding the design and the procurement in a major puming statiion. My understanding is like as follows,1. For the design works, the main contractor will make the Process Flow Diagram(PFD) and th...
Hi all,Though I'm new to this forum but having read several posts from the archive, I am optimistic that someone will be able to assist me a great deal. Straight to the point, I had just gotten a new role as a planning engineer with a consultant in a...
Hello,Good day to you, any body can tell me how to shift project from EPS name to another EPS name ??Reply pme please.
Need Hels guys..ive been using MS Project and P3 for almost 5yrs above and recently ive changed to Enterprise P6 8.2, my problem is when i create my 1st schedule in P6 8.2 after setting activities, duration, predecessor, successor and all, when i cha...
Hi all,Recently I received a programme, which is scheduled to complete before the contractual completion, say 30 days before, and a buffer activity(30 days) is inserted to meet the contract completion date.I would like to have your views in case of a...
For companies implementing Oracle Primavera P6 Enterprise Portfolio Project Management (EPPM) R8.3.2 or earlier, you will need to downgrade your user base to IE 10. P6 EPPM is not supported and doesn’t work with IE 11. Whatever your reasons for needi...
We have recently lost plans from our main list is there any way of retrieving plans and see who has deleted them
Not really my area, so I thought I'd ask the brains trust: I have a tunnel section of 6m x 8m to be excavated in Granitic material which is likely to be fairly massive. Approx tunnel Length 15km with a mid point adit so each drive is 3-4km. Expectati...
Hello everyone,when I creat a report in order to extract the Finish Dates of the Activity IDs and put them in an excel database, activities that are in progress or performed, will be extract in this way: PRC-3000/010Completed01-09-14 A15-09-14 AActiv...
Hi All,In our Project, we have to prepare a forecast cost curve along with the monthly report. I am following the below procedure to make it in P6, with the settings"fixed durations and units" and "Physical Percent Complete"After updating the schedul...
Good day ColleaguesIve been put into a situation whereby my CEO requires me to urgently put together a schedule for a smelter plant (One of those situatins where they do not understand that you need some form of scope to create a schedule). Ive only ...
Here we look at what is Latin Hypercube Sampling (LHS) and are there any benefits over Monte Carlo ow.ly/ERdLw