Dear All I need some explanation on manhours calculation for resource loading for p6 and MSpAs for my understanding, in p6 the manohurs is called - Budgeted Labor UnitAnd for MSp it is called work hourQuest 1 - Is my understading correct for the abo...
Hi,I am trying to work out how to shorten my timescale from the months being Jan/Feb/Mar etc to J, F, M so that we only see the first initial of the month?I have been googling for ages but can't seem to find a solution anyway so hoping somebody here ...
Info for after that fact baseline - reference for how long a parking lot light pole procurement should take? For example, is there a standard source to say what a "fair" duration would have been. Due to circumstances - occasionally a fair after the...
Hi Planners,I am preparing S-Curve for construction project, let's assume the planned progress for the month is 60% and the actual progress is 55%, we are 5% behind. It is not necessary mean that the planned completion date has shifted or should go f...
Hi All, Rod again...... Just wondering (in the EPPM Server based world), can the Login ID be displayed at Project level? If I have 400 projects, can I group them by Login Id? Much Appreciated, Rod
Hi Everyone,My name is Bob Malin. I just wanted to put my site out ther as I have done on LinkedIn over the years. It's nothing fancy, but I hvae put a ton of content out there after being a P6 consultant for 6 years and working for the Construction ...
Hi All,I am putting together a project S-curve analysis presentation for project managers and I am looking for a reliable source that can provide a comprehensive scurve analysis practice, specifically Early and Late data S-curve with actual progress...
Dear Experts,Could u please give some explaination on the Budgeted Expense Cost & Budgeted Labor Cost.Do we need to have budgeted labor unit when we upload the budgeted labor cost.Please explain. Thank u so much in advance.
Hello,I would like to import a WBS from MS Excel to P6 Professional. I attempted to do this by first exporting a P6 schedule to MS Excel so make sure I have the correct format. Unfortunately, P6 Professional does not import Excel data that has a colu...
Hello,I have a major scheduling project with a client, and I need an efficient way to input Resource data into P6 Professional. I would like to have the client provide a Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet of resource data and then import this into P6 Profes...
s it true you can only collect liquidated damages if there "actually" are financial effects and not just contract language? - I thought a contract is a contract, wouldn't matter if you financially needed by that date or not.
Yes, I can create some - but the more choice the better. Contractors delibritely submit per spec but in poor format, basically on purpose - I have been on both sides of this - the samples are basically for the non-schedulers to see the difference. ...
I am on a project where the remaining logic has the project 20 days behind, but 24 days behind the dates for the same item from the Approved baseline from 8 months prior. Is the project 20 or 24 days behind? I would say 20, others say 24. 24 would...
Where do you draw the line on design delays on DB projects? - Aren't all the design delays the DB's problem? (Except owner related excessive review times perhaps.)
Hi,There are sometimes in our projects that we use LOE to put the cost for a WBS with some activities ( Because of an internal agreement) I wanted to know which one is better and why? ( LOE or WBS Summary)
Hello Guys, i have more than 300 zones, districts and sublines, in Primavera yes i can write manually all lines to activity code menu, but it takes much time, is there a any easy way to create activit codes then import Primavera, i am not asking assi...
Primavera running slow, for example when I delete activities it take 1.5 minutes even on small project. It is the only program that is that laggy or slow. I have used system utility programs in the fast and generally find them pretty dangerous - so...
Is it possible for ASTA to count the total number of days between two tasks? IE, I have an 'implement detour' and a 'remove detour' task at the beginning and end of my project respectiely, with tasks in between, and I need to know how many days the d...
P6 Professional, not EPPM which is a different can of worms..1. on your system - if you have a serial number, can't you just keep paying the "maint. fee" and then keep getting updates for free - isn't this the best way to go?.2. through citrix or sim...
Dear All,In P6, how to show a milestone's date to reflect the earliest start date of the group predecessors' activities rather than total float driving from the group predecessors' activities. In the above snapshot, for my reporting purpose, I expect...