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Manpower Budgeted Time is Changing

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Dear all,The manpower budgeted time of most of the activities keep changing over and over which also change the overall budgeted time in the resource assignment. Is there any ability to make them fixed as I built them in the beginning of the project?...

Jul 29, 2018

Cumulative S-curves:

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Seemingly (without defaulting to Excel) we STILL can't generate in P6 Early and Late cumulative progress curves which form a natural continuum (at the data date) from the cumulate Actual progress curve !Or am I missing something ??

Aug 1, 2018

BL Duration % Complete

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Hi there!I require to show the project progress in terms of duration % complete but the issue is that the assigned baseline duration % complete doesn't auto update. I now am updating actuals on baseline seperately to get the data. Is there a way wher...

Aug 6, 2018

Budgeted Labor Units

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Dear all,I have hammock activity Boundary wall works with no budgeted labor units  assigned to that activity.But after updating programme this activity showing Planned Value labor Units and Earned Value Labor Units 4312 & 5778. Please advise why it s...

Aug 6, 2018

Impact of Global calendar vs Activity based calendar

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Hi Guys,If a programme has a default Global calendar with two days a week off ( sat/sunday), and it is ticked as default in calendars. But, the individual activities have three different calendars, 6 days a week, 7 days a week and the default one, st...

Aug 8, 2018

Resource lookahead

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Hello.  I am a project manager for a design consultancy and we currently use P6 to manage out programmes, and then an excel sheet as a visual representation for lookahed purposes. My manager has requested that i investigate whether there is a better ...

Aug 9, 2018

Importing Microsoft Project (XML) to P6

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Hi - I am unable to import Microsoft Project (XML) to P6. There is an article on Oracle Support about it.Could someone with an Oracle support account login (link below) and let me know what the solution is please.https://support.oracle.com/knowledge/...

Aug 9, 2018

Project management

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After receiving drawings and BOQ's from client what would be the the next procedure toward project execution of Piping project.?

Aug 11, 2018

Programme Forecast

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 I have been asked as a client-planner to produce an impact analysis in the graphical form of a delay which has been raised by contractor accepted by the client. Apparently what comes to mind is an S curve to forecast new completion date considering ...

Aug 14, 2018

Inexusable Delay

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Hi,How to deal with the inexusable delay if the contractor does not deserve extension of time and money compensation? I mean if the contractor does not deserve the EOTand he can not meet the completion date, what does the owner do? best,Muataz

Aug 14, 2018

Cash Flow report without resource loading in P6

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Hi,How Can I prepare a monthly cash flow report(Budgeted vs Actual) without resource loading in P6, only by putting the budget against each activity?Thanks in advanceTony

Aug 15, 2018

[Q] Changing External Project Relationship to another project?

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Hi there everyone.  Most of the program I did and managed for several years are usually incorporated in a single master program so its very seldom (and been a while) that I had to use external logic between 2 or more projects.So my situation:Project ...

Aug 15, 2018

Retaining Activity ID logic

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I need some help please. I have two seperate schedules linked together by activity ID's, but on a monthly basis I will need to update and produce copy files and re-write the links because they are not retainied. The Project ID changes but not the Act...

Aug 15, 2018

Submittals, Resubmittals, and More Resubmittals

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Hello,The project I am working on has been bogged down during preconstruction and the Owner has directed us to add resubmittal activities for each submittal that had a revision.  Unfortunately, that is more or less all of them, and the previous sched...

Aug 17, 2018