Hello, I'd like to ask the experts in P6. I was presenting a report of critical activities with float less than or equal zero. They were coming up in red color. Now, all of a sudden, they are coming up in green color like a normal activity. I have re...
Sir,I have to plan the schedule for the refinery turnaround.The major jobs involved are exchanger cleaning,columns,reactor catalyst unloading and loading etc.If any one has devoloped the excel sheet for tracking the physical progress of the turnaroun...
Greetings to ALLNeed to conduct Schedule Analysis to decide on Contractor's entitlement; given the following situation:The project is already completedProject original duration is one and half years, but the actual is four yearsApproved Baseline Sche...
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Hi Guys, Here's an article describing the resource leveling capabilities in Primavera P6 http://ow.ly/hBAR8 I hope you find it useful. Emily
I thought I'd share these results with the PP community! We've evaluated over 5,000 projects and gleaned average scores for schedule quality indicators such as missing logic, insufficient detail, use of constraints and more. How does your project c...
Hello Group,I have a query which is driving me crazy.I have a WBS created with 20 headings and each heading has 40-50 activities listed under them.When I try to "update progress" all activities show "% complete" as per the data date which is "Feb 13 ...
Hi,How to integrate the PCM with P6 Software? By doing so, any main advantage is there other than than using the stand alone P6 software.Please advise Thanks in advanceKannan
Dear sir,Please any can tell me the Different ways of measuring the progress in EPC project from contractor point of view ? Thanks in advance
I am currently using P6 v7.0. We have just created a project, for the finish milestone, we gave it a mandatory finish of August 23, 2013. All the predeccessor activities complete by August 21, 2013. Yet I am showing a total float of -1. Can someone p...
Hi All I was reviweing a contractor's schedule as part of a delay analysis exercise when I noticed that the time set on the data date progress line was 08:00. The work calendar is due to start on 07:00 so for every progress report one hour is lost on...
Hi Guys, Here's some great instructions on installing a new instance of Microsoft SQL Server http://ow.ly/hFWOl Emily
I came across this rather different approach to creating your project scope and generating a project schedule. The article describes how mind mapping software helps by firstly brainstorming the project requirements all the way to assigning resources ...
Hi, I have an activity which started earlier than forecasted and will consequently finish earlier. The problem is when I put the expected finish date on Feb 15th I can't draw the finish date earlier than Feb 22nd. I get the message : "Finish date can...
Hi Guys, Looking for a bit of help with a layout. I work in the rail industry. We work on weeks everyone on the project refers to project weeks and not dates. The weeks run from the First Saturday In July to the Last Friday the following June. (I.e W...
I am trying to Order my summarised projects within the Activity Screen, based on the early remaining starts of the activities within the project, in a crhronilogical order. This may be something simple I have clearly missed, however having tried a mu...
Not sure how many on this forum work in the Oil & Gas Industry, but a new book titled Project Management for the Oil and Gas Industry: A World System Approach, by Badiru and Osisanyu, was published a couple of weeks ago. The book is over 700 pages, ...
I haven't looked at Sciforma in several years, but when last I did, both it and its Scitor PS predecessors were very nice products. Out-of-the-box, I definitely think it is a better product than MS Project. Of course, so too were Microplanner and se...
Hi, I am a lead planning engineer working for a company in uae. Im faced with a challenge and so far have not been able to come around it. the challenge is that i have an engineering schedule and we measure progress based on weights assigned to to on...
In order to model the weather effects basically two things are needed, the software capable of doing so and the input data. While I have access to computer models that can theoretically do it the problem I am facing is with the data to be used.We can...