Not sure how many on this forum work in the Oil & Gas Industry, but a new book titled Project Management for the Oil and Gas Industry: A World System Approach, by Badiru and Osisanyu, was published a couple of weeks ago. The book is over 700 pages, ...
I haven't looked at Sciforma in several years, but when last I did, both it and its Scitor PS predecessors were very nice products. Out-of-the-box, I definitely think it is a better product than MS Project. Of course, so too were Microplanner and se...
Hi, I am a lead planning engineer working for a company in uae. Im faced with a challenge and so far have not been able to come around it. the challenge is that i have an engineering schedule and we measure progress based on weights assigned to to on...
In order to model the weather effects basically two things are needed, the software capable of doing so and the input data. While I have access to computer models that can theoretically do it the problem I am facing is with the data to be used.We can...
Hi everyone, Can anyone tell me what is difference between mandatory start constraint and start on constraint?What is its effect on early and late dates?
Hello I'm using v12 and have created a table for a progress report. How do I copy / import this table into another programme? The table definition doesn't seem to appear in the library explorer.... Any help gratefully received to avoid having to type...
Dear All, Please help me with this problem, thanks in advance. I remember when i use copy and paste function in P6, several windows will pop out and the system will ask me if i want to copy the relationship or other options and i can choose to paste ...
Hi everyone,There are three different types for scheduling the status i,e retain logic, progress override and actual dates. Sowhat is the difference between each other and tell me where do we use all those things?
Hello Everybody,Hope everybody doing well in your respective fields.Here I have a small clarification, For preparing a pretendering schedules upto what level i can prepare a schedule and what are all i can incorporate?Cash Flows, Is there any thumbru...
hi to all experts, here i am searching the way to edit some containts which is under "Activity Usage Profile Options". example Exist text : Baseline : Budgeted : Actual : Remaining Early ...
Hi I am trying to print out my programme which has about 80 lines on it onto 1 x A3 landscape page. I have two lines on my date area at the top of the chart - "Year" and "Months" On the screen I can pull the tick marks so that only "J", "F", "M" etc...
I am using Oracle P6 Optional Client ver 8.1. When grouping tasks by WBS coding or by activity coding, in the Display Options of the Group and Sort window, the descriptions of the groups become truncated when the set to show Group Totals. The resou...
I have created a Schedule which consists of fabrication and Construction Activities. Since this is a Shipyard Project during the construction phase the work will be done 24 hrs.I have following settings in my project.Project calendar is Standard.( 7 ...
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Dear Planners,I have been asked by several colleague if there is SDK (Activity6.xls, Project.xls) excel files for the latest Primavera?Thanks.D'Artagnan
What is the purpose of Tracking in p6.From the guidebooks i came to know about working with tracking layouts or customising tracking layouts but what is the purpose of using tracking or what we can track through this in still not clear ........can an...
While importing projects with diffrent calendars (i.e with different hrs/day), the activity durations were not exactly it supposed to be. How to manage this?Thanks,Bala
Hi all! Need some advise on how to deal this situation. Everytime I update the program monthly, our cashflow is below as planned.Project manager want me to recover the cashflow for us to obtain exactly the baseline end date of the project. This cash...