Histograms and S Curves
Forum TopicHi Guys, I'm new to planning and was wondering if you could help me. How can I extract Manpower Histograms and S Curves from a P6 Schedule. Thanks Sabrina
Feb 1, 2012
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Wrong Summary Percent Complete
Forum TopicI have a situation within same project. Some WBS summaries are calculating duration percent complete correctly, while other WBS summaries are showing ZERO duration percent complete with activities having actual pecent completes. Pls, any ideas why an...
Feb 1, 2012
Schedule Risk Analysis: What Is It and Why Do It?
Forum TopicHi Guys, Here's a good description of what Schedule Risk Analysis is and why you should do it http://bit.ly/wu4Jf2 We are going to follow up with a tool review next week. I hope you find it useful. Emily
Feb 2, 2012
Constraints in P6
Forum TopicI'm semi-new to P6.I'm trying to hold a date in my schedule. In the bottom activity box I have the dates selected that I want to hold, but in the schedule the * does not appear. When I update the schedule, it changes all 100% completed dates to the...
Feb 2, 2012
Constraints in P6
Forum TopicI'm semi-new to P6.I'm trying to hold a date in my schedule. In the bottom activity box I have the dates selected that I want to hold, but in the schedule the * does not appear. When I update the schedule, it changes all 100% completed dates to the...
Feb 2, 2012
Recurring Task like meeting or Testing
Forum TopicCan someone tell me what is the best way of creating repeat activities in P6 V7, i have 2500 columns that i am constructing and i need some form of testion on all of them, i dont wish to write 5 activities of testing per column repeated 2500 times, i...
Feb 3, 2012
Book of Dead Projects.
Forum TopicBy insistent and popular demand, Snow White waved goodbye to her healthy sextuplets and returned to the daily grind of earning a contracting crust in the Oil & Gas Industry.Life had been good to Snow White. She had come in from the cold and settled u...
Feb 3, 2012
S curve
Forum TopicDear All,My Baseline schedule got approved by the client and I’ve created the first Current Schedule. I'd like now to create a S-Curve showing the Early and Late from the baseline and the actual and forecast from the current. How is this done in P6??...
Feb 3, 2012
Change of Resource type
Forum TopicDear All, Is it possible to change the resource type after assigning the resources to the activity. My problem is that when I export resource loaded schedule from P3 to P6,the type of resources only to be modified. Is there an easy way for that? Rega...
Feb 4, 2012
How do you update the schedule in P6?
Forum TopicSo I am ready to make my first update of the schedule in P6. My current data date is January 15th and I need to shift it to January 31st. I have collected actual and new forecast dates for the activities within that period and I would just like to kn...
Feb 5, 2012
Duration in now 40 times the original
Forum TopicDear All,For the schedule when I import it to my P6 system and try to schedule it by F9 the original duration is changed to the Original duration *40. I did check the options before I hit F9 same what I have been using with other schedules..Why that’...
Feb 5, 2012
Weekly and Monthly Program update
Forum TopicDear Experts, I just want to know the right procedure of updating the baseline program by weekly and monthly. I am not sure if it is right to run the program on its current date prior for submission to consultant or am i going to put only the actual ...
Feb 6, 2012
Progress on WBS and Project Level
Forum TopicDear Seniors, I am new in Planning. Can you please guide me. What is the best way to measure progress at WBS level and Job level on a project having 500+ activities and 26 WBS, without cost/ resource loading. I selected the option "Performace % Com...
Feb 6, 2012
Baseline New Activities
Forum TopicHi, I have just added some new activities to my project in P6, the orginal project was baselined and I'm wanting to update to some my new activities in the baseline budget. The costs for the new actvities are showing in the budgeted labour cost but n...
Feb 6, 2012
Performance % Complete
Forum TopicDear Seniors, Can you please advise how Performance % complete works in P6? Thanks Regards, BIM
Feb 6, 2012
Mid project baseline issues
Forum TopicHi PP members, I have just entered a project into P6 which is about half way completed. I need to create the baseline for the projects mid way position. To do this i created a new baseline based on the current project, but when I display the baseli...
Feb 6, 2012
CPI Problem
Forum TopicHi I am facing a problem to calculate CPI for my project ...Project have 3000 Engineering activities but I have 3 datas only Project management budget - which is not in my schedule Support activities - which is not in my schedule Engineering Budge...
Feb 7, 2012
Update Progres option in P6 vs Update Progress option in P3
Forum TopicWhen yo do Tools->Update Progress in P3, all your highlighted activities get actualized automatically. I did the same in P6, but the activities didn't get actualized automatically. Can anyone tell me if I'm missing any step or if I'm doing something ...
Feb 7, 2012
Printing out just weekends
Forum TopicMorning all, Does anyone know how I can just print out two weekends worth of shifts without cluttering the page with the days we're not working during the week? I can't seem to find anything in the settings to allow it. I need them both on the same...
Feb 7, 2012
Printing out just weekends
Forum TopicMorning all, Does anyone know how I can just print out two weekends worth of shifts without cluttering the page with the days we're not working during the week? I can't seem to find anything in the settings to allow it. I need them both on the same...
Feb 7, 2012