Hi AllI had a debate with someone today about the value of CPM and float (as well as constraining the handover dates) and was wondering what my peers thought?While 4D planning is first prize, my projects are not able to wait until a model is built (v...
Hi,I got a schedule in which the start days and finish dates are having different times.The start time and finish time are different for different activities which is affecting the duration. Is there an easy way to fix this. The calender is 10 hrs/da...
Here's why schedulers should not insert dependencies on summary tasks in Microsoft Project http://ow.ly/lgAp308ZKmy
If an activity has +10 days of total float, which means if we delay this activity by 10 days it becomes critical path. Just to simulate, if we make this activity's duration increased by 11 days. Then this activity would drive the project end date and...
Here’s a look at how to assess PMO performance with a view to troubleshooting the problems you find http://ow.ly/a5ou3091CYm
Hello Everyone Can EArned Value be caluclated for Manhours and Then can we forecast the expected manhours to complete. I made a table to put those thing to get a forecasted manhours which is based on Productivity which is same as CPI. Please comment ...
After doing somewhat of a 'covering role' - At last i have started my Project Planning career! And I am after some advice for my first few weeks. Just a couple of items on a list I can tick off, to benefit me - and of course. Should I end up working ...
A new chart in the projects - Diagram building construction.Does anyone know how to work with this new diagram ?thanks.
Monitor a window of your project using secondary constraints in Primavera P6 Professional http://ow.ly/VEjM3093X3O
Hello All,I have had this issue on multiple projects and was wondering if this was a flaw in P6.Whenever I apply the SF link, the link pulls the successor into non-working period. Here is how the 3 activties are linked.Activity A <---- Milestone B ...
Hi,Estimate to Complete (ETC) values are not changing when I'm changing its calculation criteria under the WBS Earned Value settings. Following are the settings of my programme in P61) Duration type: Fixed duration and units2) Percent complete type: ...
Activity 4 weeks in duration, duration % complete, 100 Planned Units added as resource manual curve over the 4 weeks as 50 20 20 10. Activity started on Baseline Start date, Exoected Finish applied as per Baseline Finish. Data date moved on a week. P...
Hi, Performance percentage completion: On updating the P6 Program of works monthly (Jan 2017 to Feb 2017)overall percentage completion (Performance Pct Complete ) found to be decreased ,is there any reason behind it?Regards,Jossef
Hello... Dear experts, Can you please help me for productivity analysis of construction manpower. Anybody has excel sheet will really help.
Hi All,In a detailed contractual programme where we have around 40,000 No. of activities with proper weekly updates and around 600 Engineer's Instructions / Site Instructions; If the programme logic is not altered after a point and it is not reflecti...
Hello all, Thank you for accepting me as part of this goup! I am in the process of developing a paper for AACE (towards the certification as a certified cost professional). The paper's topic is: Project Controls Softwares - Critical Issues Faced by P...
Here's how to specify Fixed Price Task Costs in Microsoft Project http://ow.ly/KS1H309cW2V
HI,I have activities with resources, each Labour resource has its own Price/Unit, Max Units /Time is 100%, I have set Duration Type to Fixed Unit per Time because if I have to change the duration of the Activity I want to change as well the budgeted ...
We've recently had a few questions on how to set up a four day work week in Microsoft Project. So here are step-by-step instructions, complete with screen shots, on how to do this in Microsoft Project 2013 http://ow.ly/Di1uX
Hi Guys,Hopefully there is a genius out there that is an expert with filters and or global changes, I am after a solution and can’t work out if it is possible to do in P6. Based on a filter (using codes to select a group of activities) I want to writ...