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Self-development in the planning field

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Dear colleagues,Here are my considerations.Working as a planning specialist in a construction project (oil&gas) for several years i'm starting to notice that from year to year there remains less new information and so it's getting more boring. Most o...

Jan 13, 2016

Primavera P6 Monitoring Thresholds

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Based on a lot of recent request, this article describes the process of using the thresholds feature to monitor activity parameters in Primavera P6 Professional http://ow.ly/X02aN

Jan 13, 2016

Percentage complete

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Hi allIll give you a scenario.i have an activity which has 800 man hours budgeted for it and say i have done 400 hours is there any way i can add the hours in so it will change the physical % complete automaticly? Sorry for the simple questions im ne...

Jan 13, 2016

Activity % Complete

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Hi,Can anyone advise why I can't change the 'Activity % Complete'??? I have % Complete Type as 'Physical' and need to update a programme.I'm new to this and I'm sure it's something simple, help most appreciated.Thanks,Diane

Jan 13, 2016

Running a Report on P6

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Hello Everyone,Can someone advise how I run off a report of all the comments I have put in my notebook for the entire project?Many thanks,Diane

Jan 15, 2016

Multiple Integrated Views in TILOS

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Do anybody have idea about how to use multiple integrated views in TILOS.I am sharing my issues faced here,I tried creating more than one intergated view, but they are interlinked and whatever changes I make in one view is getting reflected in the ot...

Jan 16, 2016

Altering Budgeted Labour units

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Hi all, Im working on a project i did not build the schedule for.  the two activities that started this week are both critical and we are on course to finish on time but the budget labour units for both activities is 1600 hrs we will complete it in a...

Jan 17, 2016

P6 XML load into MS Access

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Hello, Has anyone loaded a P6 XML into MS Access tables? It almost works. I have tried using p6apibo.xsd in conjunction with the XML but it didn't quite work. Just loading the XML directly creates and populates most of the tables you would expect but...

Jan 17, 2016

re Success Probability Calculation

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Could anybody piont me to some information on how these are calculated showing hte math or some examples so I  canunderstand it a bit better

Jan 18, 2016

Monte Carlo Technique

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Hi All,Is it possible to use Monte Carlo Technique in p6  Thanks

Jan 18, 2016

Software features

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Hi thereI've justed started writing about Project Management and have done a piece on Project Management Software Features. I have not been able to look at that many different pieces of software first hand but would be interested to get any feedback ...

Jan 19, 2016

Create critical path for “any activity”

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I have writen a article regarding Create critical path for any activity in your project.I just want to share it here with you guys.https://doduykhuong.wordpress.com/2016/01/12/create-critical-path-for-any-activity/

Jan 19, 2016

Maximo and P6

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Hi All,Is Maximo software comptable with p6 imean that can i take  date directly from Maximo to p6 as excel or Microsoft project?  

Jan 19, 2016

Construction Progress measurement system or construction tracker

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Hi planners,For my current EPC project, I need a Progress measurement system/tracker for construction in excel format.I tried many formulas in excel for the construction but failed,If anyone knows about it please help me. thanks in advance,

Jan 19, 2016

Successor Start Date same as Predecessor Finish date

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I am creating a baseline with all FS relationships. The activities have been assigned with a 20hr/day, 6 day work week. I am noticing that all the activities have the start dates of their predecessors' finish dates. ie, the successor is starting on t...

Jan 20, 2016

Scheduling/Planning Dashboard

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Hello, I have been tasked with searching for dashboard software by which we can present information such as productivity trends, CPI/SPI gaps, forecasts and lags on a weekly basis. I am unaware of any software that can take P6 exports as a direct inp...

Jan 20, 2016