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Progress Measurement - Excel

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Hi All, Not sure if I can post it here, if not please dont respond.I need to calculate Overall Planned using if function or any other excel function. As and example I have plotted this belowOn 3rd Nov I want to see the Planned % (A) = 15%Date3-Nov-21...

Nov 2, 2021

Radical Uncertainty - Project controls for an unknowable future

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[[wysiwyg_imageupload:7983:]]Economics and project controls rely on being able to accurately predict the future.  The concept of radical uncertainty suggests this is not possible and the ability of humans to make decisions in the face of uncertainty ...

Nov 6, 2021

How to create Sr. No field in Reports using P6 Professional

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I group the projects for a specific project code in Reports. But my Boss asks me to give serial numbers as i given below. I am unable to find any command to create this auto numbering serial for the grouped project code. Can anyone help me in this re...

Nov 6, 2021

Why is my top float path not the critical path?

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Why is my top float path not the critical path?  I have a float path that read -164 Total Float with a fnl constraint and completion date of Apr. 6, 2021.  That is a lower Float path than the next path that is -177 with and a fnl constraint of Apr. 2...

Nov 10, 2021

Primavera Visualizer Scheduler Compare - can you export it to excel?

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Primavera Visualizer Scheduler Compare - can you export it to excel?  It has gotten better, it is still weird and clunky though - I can only seem to print of the screen.  Can you export to excel, I tried to copy and paste to excel - that did not work...

Nov 12, 2021

Printing Calendars

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Hi All, Using P6 V20 Server based system. Can someone suggest how I can print a Calendar? As an example, I have a calendar that is 6 days per week, running for two years, how do I print the calendar for each month for that 2 year period? Rod

Nov 16, 2021

Baselines and defacto baselines & re-baselines - legal vs practical?

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There is the original Project approved baseline.  The project evolves, the project gets behind, so there is a major change in phasing to bring it back a bit.  Can you approve a re-phasing project as a Re-baseline if it is negative?  Can you have a de...

Nov 18, 2021

Scheduling Core Papers Updated

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We’ve been working on a series of books: – Easy EVM is published: See more on the book – Easy CPM is a work in progress, publication later this year – Easy SHM will follow in 2022.As part of the development of Easy CPM as course-in-a-book which is de...

Nov 20, 2021

Davis Bacon Rates - what if multiple county project?

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Davis Bacon Rates - what if multiple county project?  What if you are on a long rail project that goes through 3 counties?  The Bacon-Davis rate is different in different counties.  Do you pay the highest?  Do you pay the same person doing the same w...

Nov 21, 2021

Prochain MSP add on

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Hi Everyone, Looking for some advice on using Prochain, the MSP Add On for Critical Chain Project Management. I've been using it for a few months now, and feel it is very clunky, slow and extremely frustrating to use. Any advice on how to make the us...

Nov 22, 2021

Non cumulative Material Leveling

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Hi my friends,I would like to discuss some cases that I faced today. I'm leveling material from Spider but, I think that algorithm always considers that if you do not use the material in each period the same material goes to another period for use. T...

Nov 29, 2021

DD+1m = ?

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Hi All, How do I prove, or find out, what date is actually reported in the formula DD+1m? Lets say my Data Date is 25th November 2021 00:00 will DD+1m return 25th December 2021 00:00 or will it count how many days in the month of November or December...

Dec 13, 2021

Reporting from many projects from the EPS

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Hello,I'm trying to produce reports for a group of unrelated schedules. I am using P6 Pro v20. Example provide a list of project names, start date and end date and % complete of all projects in the EPS by project type. Maybe pick out a few milestones...

Dec 13, 2021

Issue with future stored period performance - one for the tech heads!

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Hi All, We have been asked to change our financial periods for 2022 in P6 V17.12, when we try and do this we get an error saying that some actuals have been stored in these periods, this has obviously been done in error.I have scanned the projects an...

Dec 14, 2021

Reason of Delay

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In order to figure it out what is delaying an activity links and resource dependencies are not enough when leveling materials and financial resources, it is the Reason of delay field what gives me this information. There are several places where you ...

Dec 17, 2021

Schedule date calcs in Excel

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So to calc a completion date in excel that includes the NTP date itself is @sum((A1+A2)-1) because excel does not count the NTP date in that formula.  With a A1 being the NTP date and A2 being that Calendar Days.  Are there any other, or different fo...

Jan 6, 2022