Hi, I'm planning a project with a lot of seasonal work. The season is usually from 1. april until 31. of november. The activities are usually 5 months in total, and the project would not want the contractor to stay on the project over the winter. I...
I am in a company that is new to using the PRA tool, despite having used P6 for a few years.My question(s) is, what must we be aware of and to have performed when taking our P6 plan and importing it into PRA?I understand that some things have to be ...
HiCurrently i'm working with a schedule where i use expenses tab to insert the cost for all the activities. Now i'm facing a problem where when i update the progress at the status tab, the Actual Cost and Remaining Cost don't change. What i know is i...
International Project Management Day is this Thursday. How are you celebrating it? http://ow.ly/eSvFq
Hey everyone! We just released a new blog covering the use of the Progress Line on the Gantt chart in P6 R8.2. Do any of you P6 users use this functionality? http://mssprojectsanalytics.com/blog/bid/237766/Primavera-P6-Release-8-2-Progress-Line-on-th...
Hi Guys, Just wondered if there were any planners / schedulers in the Humberside / North Lincolnshire area that were looking to work for a large E&I company on an oil refinery. I am leaving my position as a planning engineer here and have been aske...
Does anyone know where I can download the following conversion utility file "XERP330Convert.exe"? I need this for a COE job. I have gone to the COE RMS webiste and searched elsewhere, but have only found SDEF conversion files for P3. The Primavera ...
Hi All,i checked P6 Rel 8.1, i did not find the top-down estimation tool that was in P6 rel.7. that was a good tool to develop a quick cash flow.did oracle replace this option with any other way to do the same thing!!!thanks
Hi,Need some assistance in buildig up the as built productivity.I was thinking of classifying under such category as belowExcavationBored pilePilecapRaft SlabGround beamColumnSlabAny idea what unit should I use if I were to build this in relation to ...
Hi,Can I have advice on the impact to installation for increase in rebar density? Can I argue that it will increase in construction time?Also kindly advice if I can use productivity of rebar which is tonnes/day to fight for EOT if the overall weight ...
Sorry for bad language. As update baseline project with new information? Baseline project was placed with docs old, in process of construction, amount may be changed, new information is recieved . Plus new construction documents is going out. Chan...
Hello friends, I need a favour, please guide me how to calculate the total number of activities in a Project. Regards, Sivaganesh
I'm particularly interested in the opinions of those who commission planning work and/or recruit planners. How much importance do you place on a planner having a qualificatation? Which of those listed do you rate and the most attractive, and why? W...
Hey All,I currently write my EMBA Master thesis on the subject:"The Future of Project Management -The benefit of redefining the role of a Project Manager from a generalist to a functional specialist"In this thesis I want to work out the benefits of r...
When updating a job usually things happen different to as planned so even milestone activities must be updated correctly.Sometimes the actual date of a Milestone is not clear and errors do happen so I wonder if there is a way to model Milestones that...
Dear ExpertsPlease can you guide me:1. I had a PLANNED number of hours as 10 but the developer finished it in 5 hours ACTUAL. He is not overloaded If I put in MPP, as task completed, I get overloaded figure to it's name. How can I resolve it.Without ...
Hi Guys,How do you usually do this.We will build a 3 levels podium RC structure with 2 basement, so over all 5 levels. Each level has a different wall layout plan & floor framing plan, so there will be no levels with the same quantity of material res...
Hello All: I had a brief discussion with one of our collegues about running pertmaster with a PDM schedule some equipment setting are not logically tied at this moment because the P&IDs are not finished, is there any restiction or misscalculation d...
Dear all,During the last big project I was running I was looking for a tool, which would from one side help me to track Issues, Risks, Agreements, Actions from the other side would allow me to generate professionally looking meeting minutes reports...
Hi Guys, I'm having a problem regarding the resource usage speadsheet and histogram (profile). I'm experiencing this in my construction program, so i tried it in a one activity program and see if it still exists. I have an activity with 7 days durati...