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In-Browser Project Scheduling

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Simply download and install anything by the help of project scheduling features of project management software. Critical path schedules and resource allocation are the main resources of the software that highlight suggested activities in the section....

Feb 10, 2017

In-Browser Project Scheduling

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Simply download and install anything by the help of project scheduling features of project management software. Critical path schedules and resource allocation are the main resources of the software that highlight suggested activities in the section....

Feb 10, 2017

Tracking Welds Per Inches and Piping in P6 8.3

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Iam working on a Project where they want to track welds per inches and Piping in P6 8.3. They also want earned value regarding this. What is the best way to set that up in P6 to track accurately?    Thank You in Advance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Feb 11, 2017

Gantt chart and resource allocation

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Hi!The customer requests a layout/view with the gantt chart for the coming month and the resource allocation beneath. (The resources in this case is machinery.) I could almost manage to do this by having the "normal" gantt chart on the upper part of ...

Feb 13, 2017

Gantt chart and resource allocation

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Hi!The customer requests a layout/view with the gantt chart for the coming month and the resource allocation beneath. (The resources in this case is machinery.) I could almost manage to do this by having the "normal" gantt chart on the upper part of ...

Feb 13, 2017

P6 - Different colours on different projects in stacked histogram

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Hi,I have different projects in Primavera, which make use of the same resources. I want to show the projects in an histogram, with each project a different colour. Does anybody know if this is possible?In the 'stacked histogram' of resource usage pro...

Feb 13, 2017

Line of Balance

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Hi all I am seeing more and more people wanting a line of balance set up as a spreadsheet, with each plot (housing project) down the left side and each activity along the top with the duration of each task identified, and then in each meeting cell a ...

Feb 14, 2017

Is CPM and float analysis over?

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Hi AllI had a debate with someone today about the value of CPM and float (as well as constraining the handover dates) and was wondering what my peers thought?While 4D planning is first prize, my projects are not able to wait until a model is built (v...

Feb 14, 2017

Duration in hours

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Hi,I got a schedule in which the start days and finish dates are having different times.The start time and finish time are different for different activities which is affecting the duration. Is there an easy way to fix this. The calender is 10 hrs/da...

Feb 14, 2017

Making sense out of Negative Float

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If an activity has +10 days of total float, which means if we delay this activity by 10 days it becomes critical path. Just to simulate, if we make this activity's duration increased by 11 days. Then this activity would drive the project end date and...

Feb 15, 2017

Earned Value - Man Hours

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Hello Everyone Can EArned Value be caluclated for Manhours and Then can we forecast the expected manhours to complete. I made a table to put those thing to get a forecasted manhours which is based on Productivity which is same as CPI. Please comment ...

Feb 16, 2017

New to planning - advice for my first few weeks :-)

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After doing somewhat of a 'covering role' - At last i have started my Project Planning career! And I am after some advice for my first few weeks. Just a couple of items on a list I can tick off, to benefit me - and of course. Should I end up working ...

Feb 16, 2017

Highrise construction diagram

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A new chart in the projects - Diagram building construction.Does anyone know how to work with this new diagram ?thanks. 

Feb 16, 2017

SF link pulls successor into non-working period

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Hello All,I have had this issue on multiple projects and was wondering if this was a flaw in P6.Whenever I apply the SF link, the link pulls the successor into non-working period. Here is how the 3 activties are linked.Activity A  <----  Milestone B ...

Feb 16, 2017

Estimate to Complete (ETC) Calculation

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Hi,Estimate to Complete (ETC) values are not changing when I'm changing its calculation criteria under the WBS Earned Value settings. Following are the settings of my programme in P61) Duration type: Fixed duration and units2) Percent complete type: ...

Feb 17, 2017

Remaining Units on Manual Resource Curve

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Activity 4 weeks in duration, duration % complete, 100 Planned Units added as resource manual curve over the 4 weeks as 50 20 20 10. Activity started on Baseline Start date, Exoected Finish applied as per Baseline Finish. Data date moved on a week. P...

Feb 17, 2017

Performance Percentage Completion ?

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Hi, Performance percentage completion: On updating the P6 Program of works monthly (Jan 2017 to Feb 2017)overall percentage completion (Performance Pct Complete ) found to be decreased ,is there any reason behind it?Regards,Jossef

Feb 18, 2017