I've been roped into doing an improtu workshop on MSP with some non-planners in a few days time. They are using MSP 2010, and I've only got 2007. Are there any major changes I should know about to avoid giving them dodgy advice? I'll only be covering...
Good Morning All, 1. It is my understanding that the P6 activity type, “Level of Effort’ is the same as the P3 Hammock activity type. If my assumption is correct, what are the pitfalls if any of adding resources to this type of activity.2. ...
Hi,Iam attempting to produce a asbuilt vs as planned programme on P6 could someone please just out line the simple steps to follow.Thank you
Hello, I am trying to create the foundation for a report resembling the table below, where the milestone is extracted from each project. I have looked into activity codes, but can't work out how to bring that information up to a project level. Table:...
Working on a Claims report supporting arbitration, mediation and possibly adjudicatrion.At what point do you stop. You have researched the claim and the nature of causation,realising that the records are demonstrating that your client is mainly at fa...
Hello,There is a problem when i update the schedule and mark the activity as started my activity finish date automatically moves ahead. Example For an activity A my start date is 12.Oct.2013 and finish date is 15.oct.2013. When i update the schedule ...
I've been tasked with writing some generic procedures, processess & standards for my current company on everything from general planning procedure to specific progress measurement standards. I have a few bits from previous companies & positions but d...
Can you please help me? I have a Gantt chart with a Baseline and fully logic linked but as i record actual start and actual finish along with overall percentage complete the periods change, as they should. however i need to record progress not just a...
Dear AllAt present am working in one big project. my projectis already extended more than one year. the following the causes to delay the project.1. Delay in design2. Delay in slab casting3. Delay in Block Work4. Delay in Plinths and epoxy for equipm...
HiIf a project has no defined budget and the actual cast is being recorded at the head office (not at the project) and not being communicated to the project manager and planning engineer means that either the project has not started or is planned to ...
Hi, I'm currently trying to put together a template programme for a particular project where the data is being gathered in a rather cumbersome Excel document. At the moment, I'm trying to build a code library so that I can make the transfer of data b...
Here's an article explaining the rather useful Primavera P6 Professional Hint Help http://ow.ly/qjSF6
We usually refer to our weeks as "week ending" however the timescale shows the week beginning date. ie. Last week was "week ending october 26". When I chose month/week as my interval it shows "Oct 20" as you can see in the picture below:[[wysiwyg_ima...
Vladimir,strict links were mentioned in this topic, but I found a couple of other things about them, which I don't understand.1) In the below example link between Activity2 and Activity4 is Strict. When the project resource leveled the following issu...
It’s common practice to use Primavera P6 Professional’s Time Distributed reports feature to create time-phased tables of data that are then exported to Microsoft Excel. However, if you’ve ever done this you may have noticed that in many cases the Sub...
Hello Tilos users,I would appreciate if somebody explains the difference between Actula resources and Planned resources in Tilos.Are Actual resources mandatory if I want to update the project progress by using resources actual work? Or are they somet...
I am trying to export TILOS to P6 by exporting the former in XML format. It is giving an error which is as mentioned below:Mode: MSP2PRMSource XML: C:\Users\PRIMAV~1\AppData\Local\Temp\stg.primavera.xml (0 KB)Source XSD: ...
Just want to mention that Safran Project 5 was released on October 31.http://www.safran.no/news/archive/safran-project-5?em=1
I frequently have projects that have long gaps in the middle between two very hectic segments. As always, managers want to see the entire schedule on a single paper width. So the example below: Six months straight work, followed by nine months of...