I just posted a new blog article titled “Why Won’t We Recognize the Value/Cost of Time?” This article discusses how blind our entire project management profession is (including PM software!) to the critical need to estimate what the cost is of late c...
Hi All,How to create two EPC in one project?Thank you.
What is the easiest and most affordable way to integrate P6 with visualisation software to create 4D planning simulations?
Im new into P6 and have issues linking construction activities for villa project....the company is aware of my status and has given me a grace of two month...any video reccommendation with focus on constuction activity sequence and relationships.
Afternoon all :) I have a P6 v8.4 programme in which a material resource has been used to generate cost. as we are working ot an activity schedule, all costs have to be allocated at the finish of the task.My problem is that any time th eduration vari...
How many are reading all of the technical articles concerning CCPM (Critical Chain Project Method)? What is everyone's thought on this?
What support does your PMO provide at project setup? I was hoping for a poll, but no such luck. What I'd like to know is how you initially determine your project duration and initial estimate. Actually, I'm looking for the step or two after you recei...
Hello, I hope I'm posting in the right section.My question is, How do I control Contractor schedule as a consultant, while I should do cost control on myself (as consultant) for the same project?If I speak my mind, I'd say, I can do one of the follow...
I just posted a a new blog article. It’s titled “Project Management and Senior Management: Reconciling Their Needs.” You can find it here. This article discusses why there is often such a chasm between the views and needs of project managers and thos...
A new thread was posted two days ago on my website's new Discussion FORUM by a guy named Thomas Boyle. It explains that it has enhanced its Logic Analyzer software add-on to MSP to include critical path drag calculation.Needless to say, I am delighte...
Hi All,I am a fresh planner and very recently my boss allowed me to start updating the program. The issue is that i am having a baseline and recovery programs and i have to update same activities twice which consumes a lot of time, bcoz first i updat...
Where are my tasks? Task location and Microsoft Project to Primavera P6 conversion issues explained http://ow.ly/O8GdJ
Where are my tasks? Task location and Microsoft Project to Primavera P6 conversion issues explained http://ow.ly/O8GdJ
Hi everyone,I am looking at having a discussion or debate in regards to the wisdom of having an activity type that is task dependent. In P6, a Task dependent activity is described as 'an activity that is scheduled according to the activity's calendar...
I just posted a new Weekend Puzzler at my Total Project Control blog. It’s titled “Earned Value and DIPP Analysis on the Phlogiston Mining Project.” It steps the reader through some fairly simple earned value analysis and then extends the discussion ...
1. While importing from XL, Actual Dates are updating and Physical % Complete is not updating2. Even If Physical % complete is updated manually, Remaining Duration is not changing3. Actual Expense cost is also imported, but not upda...
i am trying to see predecessor and successor of activties as column. but i do not see columns for that . how can i add predecesor and successor columns? they dont exist? if so why? it seems pretty basic, even in ms project they exist
how can you change the timescale in p6? i use 8.4i saw a few options but they are not enoughi want to be able to modify it as i want, and not one of the fixed options given to usis it possible?
Hi EveryoneI hope everything is going just fineOk well, i have this problem iam sure there is a filter to do this to view BL values without press F9without changing DD i want to look to my BL values Any Comment will be very much appreciated.
Please, I need help understanding my problem!Last year we upgraded to Primavera version 8.3. We recently noticed that the size of our xer export files has been increasing exponentially for some time now and is now quickly getting out of hand. My kn...