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P6 Keypoint

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 Dear All, NOTE: I assumed that am working as a planner of main contractor 1. Can you pls explain to me how I can update my activity progress on P6 assuming amworking with main contractors and sub contractors want to update me? 2. if am working wt ma...

Aug 4, 2014

S Curve for cost and Manpower both shows different

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Dear All,I have a situation.as this week i update the program total performance complete is more than scheduled but when i prepared cost based S curve the actual value for this month is coming less than planned for the month (if i go through budgeted...

Aug 5, 2014

Example in turnarounds for 4 basic relationships.

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Hi guys,I'm new to the scheduling world (coming from a computer science track) now working as a consultant.As I understand it there are 4 basic relationships between activities and they are central to the concept of network analysis.1) FS finish to s...

Aug 5, 2014

Is it Bug or is it just me? Ctrl F then ctrl v not allowed

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Bug in Primavera P6.7: When you pressed ctrl f, you cannot press ctrl v to paste the clipboard, it should use mouse, right click and paste. When you already paste within that search box, you can not press delete, it's only backspace allowed...  are y...

Aug 6, 2014

Forecasting Multiple projects in P6

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Greeting All,I've been assign a task in the company to create forecasting for small projects ranged from $50k to $1.6mm. Approximately 20-25 projects. We are dealing with resource shortage and in order to justify it, need to generate and keep track o...

Aug 6, 2014

Planner's Retreat Survey- UK

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Many apologies if this is the wrong forum or website to post this in, but we would be interested to hear opinions about a new training retreat idea that is being developed.We would like your views on whether or not a unique opportunity for your conti...

Aug 8, 2014

Resource allocation for sub contractors

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Which resource type best suit for sub contractors in P6? Labour or Non Labour?? Normally, subcontractor prices are fixed unless there is any variation.

Aug 10, 2014

Activities Finish Dates

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A schedule was built completely by my colleague, and after it was sent to the owner for approval, It was requested to modify it and divide all activities to more detailed ones with maximum duration 21 day.I started to modify and divide these activiti...

Aug 10, 2014

Assign Weights to Entire Activity & WBS Summary Level

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hi to all,Here i am wondering a way to assign weights to my entire activities as well as WBS level.My schedule is loaded with Man-hours but now my Client asking to show the weight on the schedule.I have checked in P6 & there is no any default column ...

Aug 11, 2014

Linking two or more projects with external relations

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Hi all,I am dealing with a large project that’s estimated to have about 50,000 activities with over 100,000 relations, this project is divided into three large phases, we have developed the first phase and it’s about 19,259 activities and with 37,851...

Aug 13, 2014

Computing Critical Path Drag in Start-to-start (SS) Relationships

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There is a Wikipedia page that explains how to compute critical path drag, but only with finish-to-start relationships. I recently had a long discussion with another PP member, Dennis Hanks, in which I mentioned the value/importance of computing crit...

Aug 13, 2014

Delay in site handover to Contractor

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Hi All,The situation for EOT as follows;There is a delay in the hand over of site to the Contractor, but as a part of mitigation the Contractor started the setting out works ahead of the official site handover-     Can the Employer deduct the time of...

Feb 23, 2015

concurrent delays

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Hi All,Can I request the opinion of the experts for the below claim situation.1. The Contractor is in delay and beyond the Contract Completion Date.2. In the mean time, there is a delay event from Employer (for eg: permission of Power). But even afte...

Feb 23, 2015

Answers to Last Weekend's PM Puzzler: Where to Add Resources?

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I just posted the answers, with explanations, to last weekend’s PM Puzzler on my blog. They're here. If you haven’t tried this PM Puzzler yet, just click on the BLOG tab and scroll down past the answers to the second article from the top. Then you ca...

Feb 24, 2015

Progress update of out of sequence activities

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Dear All,What will be the effect of  updating an out of sequnce activity in a Baseline programme (Cost loaded) in a Villa Project.Planned dates of that activity falls in the month of May, but actvity completed in the schedule period. (Schedule % is 0...

Feb 24, 2015

Progress update of out of sequence activities

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Dear All,What will be the effect of  updating an out of sequnce activity in a Baseline programme (Cost loaded) in a Villa Project.Planned dates of that activity falls in the month of May, but actvity completed in the schedule period. (Schedule % is 0...

Feb 24, 2015