Currently I'm working on a project where I review a subcontractor's P6 schedule and implement their update when I submit mine to the client. When I import their project into my machine, I hit re-calculate and their Substantial Completion date changes...
Hello Everyone, I am studying Quantity Surveying at Coventry University. As part of my final year dissertation, I am carrying out this survey about project planning. It would be very helpful if you could complete this short project planning survey by...
I’ve posted a new blog referencing Bill Gates’s article in Thursday’s (March 18, 2015) New York Times titled “How to Fight the Next Epidemic: The Ebola Crisis Was Terrible. But Next Time Could Be Much Worse.” The blog article can be found here: Altho...
We had a call from someone who had become frustrated with trying to change the Primavera P6 Gantt chart gridlines for printout. If you didn’t know, the Gridlines toggle in the print page setup dialog only controls the gridlines of the activity table;...
Contractor A has a large construction project in the middle of nowhere. The logistics route from the nearest available port to the workfront is >1,500km long and in poor condition, and will have to carry something like 200,000 tonnes of plant, equipm...
Just an occasional usser of MS Project 2010, but I always need to print gantt charts. Just today, as I am trying to make the chart fit, I select a printer that does 11x17 and color and I start playing with page setup settings, then I notice that I ...
I want to find out what relationships have been added / deleted from a previous schedule. What is the best (or fastest) way of doing this automatically, without having to review them one by one, visually, manually, etc.?
Dear PM Professionals!I am in process of selecting thesis for my MS (Project management) Degree. My basic job involve Cost Estimation and Cost Control in construction industry of saudi arabia. I want to make thesis either in Cost Estimation or Cost C...
Dear all,Please help me out in couple of queries1) I have budgeted labour, budgeted non labour (equipment hrs) units for each activity in project. when i calculate progress based on budgeted units alone do i have to consider only labour units as this...
Hi,When we revise links and add activities to our original baseline to make it revised baseline, how to copy the actual dates from the updated schedule to reflect on the new (re linked) schedule?Re applying actuals one by one for hundreds of activiti...
Dear Experts,We have a program fully loaded with cost and manpower. The problem that we are facing right now is that lots of costs that were loaded to the program are not spreading to the entire duration of the activity. Can anyone share his knowledg...
Hii,I get 0 duration % complete for one particular set of activity codes at the WBS level, but all other activities which are in progress/ completed rolls up to some value in the WBS level.The activity type assiged is Fixed Durations & Units for all ...
If you've been trying to display the Total Float of Activities on the Gantt Chart in Primavera P6....here's how to do it http://ow.ly/KMhd3
This may sound very easy question but we cannot find how to establish a constant group and sort view by clicking just once. I can prepare group and sort as my own way but I failed when I want to send this group and sort layout to my friend. He could ...
Primavera Web and P6 Client is not pointing to same schema after upgrading the DB from 10g Xress to 11g ExpressKindly helpThanks and Regards,Rajesh.
Primavera Web and P6 Client is not pointing to same schema after upgrading the DB from 10g Express to 11g ExpressKindly helpThanks and Regards,Rajesh.
Dear Planners,How to make Primavera does not revert the original schedule when re-schedule the program after resource leveling is done.Best,Moutaz
Hi All,I have the following scenario of delay due to the late material submission by the Contractor.Material Submittal: 30 daysApproval by Engineer: 21 daysMaterial Procurement: 5 monthsConstruction & Commissioning: 3 monthsThe above are the planned ...
Good day, I use MS project and currently try to move to Primavera. But there are some things that I can't do in Primavera. For example in linked photo ( http://imgh.us/MS_Project.jpg ) you can find screenshot from MS project where I allocated resourc...
I'd like to create a layout in project view where if project status = planned, inactive, active etc. it gives me a bar of a different colour for each.I tried to create filters for this but they don't appear to be available in the when I try to add a ...