Having been a Planner for 12 years on P6, MSP and Pertmaster I have an interest in and feel that the future of Planning is the move towards 4D Planning and its incorporation into Gantt and Site Planning.Having no prior experience of 4D Planning as wi...
Hi, has anybody got a pretty schematic showing the D&E interfaces between the 3D BIM Model LOD's as BS 19650, the Vendor information requirements (as set out in the PO's, we used to have Stages A - G designations) and the 30% / 60% / 95% Design Revi...
Anyone knows why the move arrows are greyed out and I cannot use the P6 WBS functionalilty.
Dear ExpertsI have a question on Primavera P6. As far as i know, duration is not an appropriate unit to determine the plan or actual percentage of a project at a particular time given. The more accurate is manhours. Now, the schedule % complete ...
Dear Members, I am updating my project,on a specific activity i have non labor unit assigned 30h when i am progressing the activity to 80% i am updating my actual units to 24h and remaining to 6h but when i run the schedule after updating the units i...
The latest paper in our series on the origins of project controls has been published in the March edition of Project Management World Journal.This paper traces the origins of accounting, through cost accounting, to cost engineering. Download the full...
Are material and equipment costs included in PV, SV, CV or we include just the labor?
Hello,For example if I enter a link such as 4SS+2, the successor colun shows it as 4SS+2 days. I do not want it to write "days" there. Because I have limited print space and just because of word "days" I am losing horizontal print area. Is there a wa...
I would like to have Activity Code Description values rather than Code Value when I export data to Excel. For Example for an Activity Code: Code Value is Ph1 : Code Description is Phase 1I would like to get the description Phase 1, rath...
Managing capacity planning bottlenecks has been a challenge sometimes for even experienced managers. What are the effective ways to deal with these bottlenecks and streamline capacity planning?
You are 15 months into a 4 year JV process plant project,(FIDIC Type Contract, Seperate OoC / IC) and the EVM data is just pushing your project into the RED status. Your Project Director is putting pressure on you, as PCM, to make the numbers look b...
Hi all, I'm just after some clarification rather than help for a change. it's something we've not noticed before and it could just be us but when we actualise the finish date of an activity has P6 always removed remaining costs and units automaticall...
Which part of the peace process is helped by removing Vladimir's email from Plannng Planet?
just would like a general opinion on this issue. In short on DT3, the Contractor Submitted a Baseline that had 3 months float. The work was dependent on the big contract moving a sewer first, which they are now moving that 3 months later. One opin...
Hi, I have a project where I have split the fit out of a floor area into a number of different sections call them area 1,2,3 & 4. Area 1 has UFH and so whilst this is being layed and screeded will restrict access to the other areas which come off i...
On March 8, 2022, President Joseph R. Biden Jr. issued an Executive Order on Prohibiting Certain Imports and New Investments with Respect to Russia & the Ukraine War (“March 8, 2022, Executive Order”). Some specs may consider this Change in Law can...
Hello Planners,one customer of mine is asking the fommowing question, I have to admit that I am not able to answer it; does anybody have an idea?**************My project takes place during Scheduled Machine Shutdowns (SMS).Today when the different Ta...
Hi All,PMBOK and some other project management standards describe two key methods for schedule optimisation: fast-tracking and crashing.Apart from these well-known methods, there is a method that hasn’t been described widely. So, let’s feel in thegap...
Some states list a "Calendar" with typical working days for simple ROAD projects. But simple road projects are more suseptible to rain than a rail project, but in this case they are using this "state calendar". Its not like we will give credits or ...
Hi, I am working on my presentation for next Project Controls Expo and need your support. In one of previuos posts it was stated that Asta can calculate project critical path DRAG. Could anyone demostrate how it works in Asta? Thanks in advance.