Hello Everyone,It is generally noted and as per this: http://www.ronwinterconsulting.com/rabaseline.htm point #92 that having having a Lag in a FS is not a good practice. Can someone pls provide more insight into my situation as below (Construction P...
That’s the title of my new article, just up at my blog. One of the readers of my blog posted a question in the Comments with respect to a metric I had mentioned in passing: “DIPP tracking. What is it and where can I learn more about it?” I had not pr...
Do you know what your project is costing? Tracking costs in Primavera P6 is an easy way to keep tabs on spending and here we show you how with a step-by-step guide http://ow.ly/Jfuby
Dear All,Need your expertise, Reference to the contract we have carry out additional work which is not in the original scope of work and that involve supervision of work, we have upt up the claim for the supervisor and engineer to supervise these ext...
Dear All,Would like to clarify the omission of the scope of work in the contract BQ, material has been procure and the work has been carried out however in the middle of the project schedule the client cancelled the design for the particular work and...
Hi Everyone I'm trying to create a Programme of works for a commercial building and i really need a guidance on the sequence of works that'll probably state the activities that needs to follow each other both Civil,MEP/Architectural. Either a book or...
Sometimes when we are revising a baseline, you find that there are two activities in the same float path that shares the same finish and start date as in the figure below. In this report we are going to explore three of the possible solutions.http://...
I just posted a new "puzzler" for the weekend on my blog. I don’t know if I’ll be able to do it every weekend – but I will whenever possible. If you like exercising your brain and/or your PM skills, today’s puzzler is definitely about PM skills. It d...
Dear All,Is it allowed as per FIDIC, for a Contractor to submit the detailed claim (WITHOUT A NOTICE) within 28 days after the Contractor became aware of the event.For eg: the Contractor submitted the impacted schedule with delay event/supporting doc...
Hi Everyone,Could you please shed more lights on the essence of throwing-in lots of constraints in a schedule. I am reviewing a schedule where around 15 Finish ON/Before, Start On, Finish On/After constraints exist.Most amazing to me, most of this co...
Hi There,I am just wondering if there are any books that people would recommend that provide a mid level discussion and explanaton of delay analysis and the techniques involved. It would be very useful if any of these books also contained a relativel...
Dear All,In the Contractor submitted program, the submittal time period is levelled(manual linking) by linking it with " Material Sub contractor approval" with a FS (LAG) relation ship.For eg: MEP sub contractor approval: 01-JAN 2015(Activity A)Submi...
Here's a guide to summarizing project data for quick management reports Primavera P6 http://ow.ly/Olbx9
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Hi All,What are the major differences in Project Management Consultancy and Construction Supervision Consultancy.In my understanding the CSC includes, but not limited to;1. Checking the compliance with technical specifications2. Monitoring time, cost...
All,I am trying to understand in what way oracle primavera calculate toatal float in same logic relationship. Thereby, I made a sample testing projest with only 3 activities A B and CA--(FS)-->B--(FS)-->CThe duration for A B and C are all 5 days.Now ...
Hi,Is there any way I can export the assigned resources to activities from Primavera Programme to excel and then import the same resources on a modified programme with similar set of activities and quantities rather then assigning each resource indiv...
The whole is equal to the sum of its parts. Likewise a successful project is founded on a strong team made up of proficient team members. The question is: do you know how to build a team into an efficient unit that is able to take on the project at h...
Hi all,As I keep on thinking about P6 remaining early start description, I keep getting confused. The description says ' Remaining early start is basically the earliest date an activity in-progress can start or continue after the data date'. My quest...
Good morningAny help you can offer for this niggling problem would be appreciatedI have posted about this before but never found a solution but I think my problem was a bit detailed for my peasized brain to explain properly. This morning I found a mu...